Spring Cleaning

I love yard work. If you ever want to give me a gift just offer to relieve me of my motherly duties long enough for me to get in some good hard yard work. With this great weather that we have been having; working in the yard has become an everyday event at the Smith house.  I don't know if you saw, but last autumn after our tree cutting experience in the back we had quite a mess to clean up. We still have a mess out back, but near the house most of the slash from harvesting wood has been removed or has been put into a pile to be burned. Needless to say, the yard is still quite sad looking, but to someone who has been looking at it everyday for the past 6 months with dread, it has never looked so good.

One of the things that we did these past couple of weeks was construct a permanent bridge over the wet section of land.  With this bridge in place we can drive the tractor to the back section of the land even during a very wet spring. Thanks to the logging that we had done last fall we had a lot of scrap timber to use to construct a nice little bridge.  I felt so strong lifting and moving large pieces of pine wood, and as you can see, Tyler is never more in his element than when he is wearing his chaps, work boots, and toting a high powered orange chainsaw. 

Don't get too disappointed that you missed all of this fun, there is still lots to be done around here. So come on over and we will gladly put you to work moving brush, holding babies, or hey maybe we will even let you drive the "tractor".