Weekend Of This and That!

 

It is once again Monday morning , for Papa  it’s back to work  BOOHOO ! I like having him home with us  but for me  that means more time to take photos and go for walks  hehe !

Hope you all had a good weekend !

Over the weekend Papa and I  puttered , as well was able to get down to work ! The puttering was Saturday when we woke to very high winds and lots of sideways rain  and no power for a few hours . It was chilly but heck that’s ok we put the wood stove on and all  was toasty and instead of our electric kettle that boils fast we used our old whistle kettle on the gas stove for our tea .  The hydro was back on in a few hours  Saturday was pretty much written off for yard work but we watched movies and browsed the web well Papa did I was reading blogs lol

Then I looked out of the living room window and noticed a big piece of our driveway tree was down .

So as it was windy and still raining I nipped out onto the front porch to get a few photos !

Sunday was a lovely sunny day so we headed outside to take a closer look at the damage of this old tree !

WOW ! it was a huge piece that just snapped off , now to look at the tree from the outside it looks fine but where it snapped and exposed the inside it has all rotted ! No wonder it came down in the high winds it was just a matter of time !

Then as Papa was looking at the entire tree as there are three trunks grown from one base that one of the other trees that branch out form the trunk lol no pun intended there , had a huge crack in it.

And as the wind was blowing the crack was making the tree look like it was breathing as it was moving !

So now we have to get hydro as the tree is over hydro lines and the city to figure out if it is on our property or the guy who owns the field next to us property or the cities , we are kind of hopping it isn't ours as it is expensive to get these big trees taken down and we would do it out selves but it is to close to the hydro wires and best to let the pros do it ! Not that Papa couldn't but still better to get them .

                          So this week Papa will get a hold of all who need to be contacted  to get this matter sorted out before the tree falls across our driveway and takes all the hydro wires and pole with it  !.

As yesterday was such a nice day we were out finishing up the final garden clean up and now all my gardens are bare and all that needed to be cut back are done .

Then Papa and I did the leaves with his leave blower/mulcher over the entire yard as there were so many more leaves after the wind storm on Sat and then Papa cut the grass for the last time this season !   Our weekend was a bit of puttering ,  being busy in the fresh air and sunshine ,  a bit nerve racking with the winds and fear of the rest of the tree coming down taking out all the hydro lines and relaxing after all was said and done . Pretty good weekend I would say !

                   Miggs and I are off for our walk now , it is sunny , chilly with fresh crisp air  !

                                        Until next time  ..have a snap happy day !

                                                  Country Gal