Trees

     This past week made for an interesting week.  On Sunday we had been experiencing some strong winds and in town at the land we take care of there was a large twin tree that the wind decided to take down.  We got the call that it went down after I had crawled in bed.

     After making a couple phone calls we got a hold of someone with a chain saw to meet us at the tree.  One half of the large tree went down across the alley.  After some time we got the alley opened up.  Then it was the other half of the tree on the neighbors shed to worry about.  After a lot more cutting, a lot of the weight had been taken off the roof but we couldn't get it down.  And all of this while it was raining.  It was after midnight by the time we got home and into bed - again.

     On Monday we hoped to get it off the shed but things didn't work out but Tuesday morning we had a tree service finish taking it to the ground. and then the job of cleaning it up started.  We have two different friends who are taking wood for the tree, which is a help and we have made several trips with the trailer hauling brush to our house but there is still plenty there.

JUNE

June has been a busy month

Several if not all of us have been gone almost every weekend.

• First it was a graduation party for my niece in Brainerd.  I just had to go and give her a bad time.....
• Second was a wedding in Bemidji.  Friends of ours tied the knot and my oldest two were playing music for the wedding.
• Third was a rally in Brainerd
• And fourth was the transfer of one on the kids from one Bible camp to another.

Somewhere, wedged in all of this was my birthday, fathers day, Drivers Ed for the 15year old, swimming, a camp out for the older two boys, my oldest doing some house sitting and even flooding.

I'm thinking I may be glad for June to end.

Oh yeah, I also decide to try putting together another blog which I'm calling PupperPologia.  More on that in the future.

A Duck In The Rain

     It has been a wet spring.  Many farmers in the area are wanting the rain to stop so they can get there crops in the field but the forecast keeps calling for more rain.  The other day it rained and rained, leaving a large puddle in our front yard which has been nicknamed Lake of the Woods.  Well, when I went to work that morning, a duck was swimming around in the puddle and took off.  To top it off, this morning it got down to 37 degrees.  at this rate we might get rid of the rain, maybe it will turn to snow....  Maybe summer will come.

No Work

     This past week, my place of employment, Marvin Windows, Did something it has not done in a long time.  It closed the plant because of the weather.

     On Monday of this past week we got it by a major April fools joke.  A major winter storm dumped up to 17 inches of snow on the area and along with the snow came the wind.  By Monday afternoon the roads had become hazardous to drive and the Plant shut down the night shift and the day shift the following morning.

     On Tuesday morning, I slept in and then got up and blew snow for 2 /12 - 3 hours cleaning out the driveway and various paths.  By the time I was done the road we live on had been plowed so we could get out and my daughter could get home - she had to work during the storm.

     By Wednesday the roads were bare but the pile of snow were high. and they still are.

Winter

     I read somewhere, I think it was on my calendar that today is suppose to mark the arrival of spring.  Currently we are looking at a winter storm warning for tomorrow followed by temperatures somewhere below zero.  I must be looking at the wrong month, it must be December again.