Tremendous Competition

Our neighbors across the street decided to take down their very old and large front yard tree. It was damaged severely first by last year’s Hurricane Ike, then by January’s ice storm. At lunch we watched for a while as a team of tree trimmers dismantled the Maple. By dinner time saws were still cutting the huge tree into manageable pieces so a front-end loader could left the logs into a dumpster. Since all this activity was way more interesting than mom and dad, we moved the boy’s chairs around so they could watch the action without twisting in their chairs.