When Trees Fall - The work is just beginning!

After a summer of wind storms and some concern about the dead trees threatening our cabin and the neighbors, Steve arranged to have a professional take down some of the precarious trees around the cabin property. Five trees in total came down with ease as the pro and his crane had it done in 3 hours. This is where the work began for us though. We now have enough wood for a couple of years....with Grandpa's help, it took a few days to clean up and move the wood around.

Here is Grandpa with the trusty splitter and the beginning of his pile of wood. This is about half way in our 4 hours of splitting wood. Working with the timbers brought back some thoughts of when he used to work rolling logs for cutting - back in the day. You wood never know this man's age by the way he split this wood!

Here is a 10th of the logs that the trusty quad dragged around from the top of the property. The new wood shelter will certainly come in handy.

Thank goodness for the splitter. 4 Hours - $65.00 - best damn money I have spent! I think I actually may be able to walk the next day versus cutting by hand.

It wouldn't be right to not have a "fire shot" with Grandpa. It snowed almost 5cm during the day. Winter is here! Time to break out the new winter toy! It is also time to pick up the girls some "mini-z" snowmobiles to match Dad's new one!