Going, going, gone!

The last few days, we have been working outside getting things spruced up. One of the projects that we're working on is removing a couple of big mugho pine shrubs out of our flower beds in the front yard.


First, we wacked it down by hand one branch at a time.


Then, we thought we'd try to see if we could move them out by hooking it up to our small Ford Ranger. I know...wishful thinking, but hay, we had to try.

Well, that didn't work! It didn't even budge. So, as we were digging somemore around the stumps to try to ease the job, we thought of how we could borrow a larger truck from a friend. Just as we were trying to figure out who that may be, our next door neighbor drove by, saw what we were trying to do and said, "You know, Devon has a winch on his jeep and he would LOVE to get that out for you...and it probably would take about 15 seconds...no, really!" We looked at each other and said, OK!!!!!



And they were right...Devon pulled out two bushes and a small tree that was growing from underneath our old chicken coop taking a total of about one minute! It was fantastic!! Thank you, Devon and Melinda Berns!!! You saved us hours of hard labor!!

Brother & Sister

Slide Time

We've got to get some kind of play structure for the kids. This Little Tikes cube/slide isn't going to do it much longer! But, for now...Rile' still loves it, so we'll keep enjoying the laughter than comes along with it.