THE CABIN HOUSE

we teamed up with our neighbors, who have just as much overgrowth as our little cabinhouse, and rented a wood shredder last weekend. figured we'd end up with enough to use as some nice mulch for the backyard. we spent saturday cutting and pruning in preparation for the big day on sunday...got some new blades for our reciprocating saw. they're actually called "the ugly". awesome.
this is one hunk of wood that i saved. thought it would make some nice mini-cutting boards. in germany they have little individual sized boards for breakfast. thought it would be really neat to have some made from our own trees.after cutting away all of the insane overgrowth and dead branches we found the nicest tree in our front yard. kind of like something from the jungle book with big swinging branches...we took out the crazy bush at the side of the house and we're thinking about putting in some blackberry bushes...ohhh...pies and jams, oh my! We had the driveway, sidewalk and backyard completely covered in branches. It was kind of amazing how fast the shredder ate everything up. and now the arrival of the shredder:did i mention my wonderful brother came for a weekend visit to help us out? thanks ev!
empty tarp:
tarp with some shredded wood.filling up:really full tarpexhausted brother:exhausted jay:curt climbed some more trees while we took at the trees that had fallen over our backyard fence:exhausted boys:tasty dinner:oh, and two last things after all of that. curt found a little snake in our backyard. we googled it...it's a red belly garter snake. we put him up by the redwood trees.okay, last thing. we had a lovely little birdhouse in our tree and noticed that the squirrels had taken up residence, so on martha's advice (yes, that martha...) we moved it to a pole away from the trees. funny thing though, we'd wake up in the morning to find the roof knocked off and unusual amounts of birdseed missing. looky what we found!