Saving the TREES.....

What is it with men and chain saws????? I am exhausted from a day of trying to save the beautiful trees which outline the property at the house where David and Sarah will soon (hopefully) live. Steve has been working at that house so I thought I would go over on Memorial Day (yes, we have ALWAYS worked on holidays) and maybe try to give the yard a face lift. I love working outside. So, I called my friend, Beth, and found that she was home with only one of four kids so talked her into helping me. There is really a neat little yard there... lined with trees. We were just admiring the trees when we found out that they are (were) planning to chop down several of them. We were telling them allll the reasons why they should leave those trees. Beth said it would 'beautify' the parking lot:-) (The property is behind our church and they bought it so they could add a much needed parking lot. ) I even called my mom to come down there to try to talk some sense into these men, namely my dad. Beth and I told the guys we would climb up the trees and stay there so they couldn't cut them down! (just that mental picture I'm sure was a factor in our favor) And then I think I figured out WHY the men love to cut down the trees. It's that 'feeling' they get with a chainsaw in their hands! It is rather manly you know. I think we kinda won... I rescued one little, rather cute tree as the guy with the chainsaw had only cut off one big limb. So, our outside efforts caused the guys to not get their inside work done but the yard sure does look better! It was fun. That was yesterday but I'm having a hangover from all of that. Too much manual labor I guess!
So much for keeping up with a blog. Maybe it'll be easier now since summer break is here.