Tree Trimming!

We've been working on the trees today. We went to church and as soon as we got home, we got started on the trees. We have finished with the front and back trees, but the side tree is still waiting on us. There might be some additional trimming on the front trees, but it will be minor. We will have to take out at least 3 of the 4 trees in the front, but that will be later on. One of them will be "easy" but the other three will be much harder because they are bigger trees and we'll have to keep them from falling on the fence or the neighbor's house. But that is something to worry about at a later date. The two in the back might survive, we'll have to wait and see. There was also a limb that was from the neighbor's tree in the back and it was halfway in our yard so we trimmed that one while we were at it. We have about 2 cords of wood already, and we'll probably get a little more out of the side tree. When we take down the actual trees in the front, we will probably get at least 2 cords out of them. I'm really glad we had not ordered firewood this year, as we would have no place to put what we now have!

We have two huge piles of smaller limbs out in the front of the house, at the street. Eventually, the city will get them picked up. The city has announced that any limbs left by the curb will be picked up, but that they probably won't even start until the first of the year and that it could take them 6 weeks to get it all because there are so many. There are dump sites to take limbs to, but we no longer have the El Camino and we gave Don his trailer back a few weeks ago so we're just going to wait on the city. At least that is the plan right now.

We are both very tired and have sore muscles. I am not looking forward to getting out of bed in the morning! I have discovered that my muscles in the area of my surgical incision get tired very quickly, and they are probably not as strong as they would have been if they hadn't been sliced open! Bill thinks that it's normal for the muscles to still be tender and they aren't really hurting, just sore. I have a feeling that I'm going to regret tossing out the pain pills I had!

We had an automated phone call from the school district, school will be in session tomorrow. Otter only has three days this week anyway. Last week was to be finals, I'm not sure how they will handle that.

It did not get as cold as they thought last night, but it was still cold. It was in the low 20's, which is an improvement over the mid-teens that it was supposed to get to. But today was sunny, so even though it was still cold it wasn't horrible. There was no ice on the roads this morning, we just had to defrost the car a little bit so we could go to church.

The dogs have been silly today. Very playful. I think that they like this weather, cold makes them crazy but it's not icy at least. Last year when it was icy, they kept bringing in huge chunks of ice from the yard to eat. I'm glad we don't have ice to deal with at the moment. Although the dogs probably would disagree!!