random thoughts – Day 2,213 (Wednesday) – sticks be gone

First load underway.

The stick pile that became a larger stick pile was transported to the neighborhood yard waste drop off area by the magic of a big red pickup truck. The helpful neighbor arrived with his truck and we got busy loading the big pile sticks and limbs into the truck bed. Luckily, he also brought over a chain saw and cur the longest limbs, which were too long for the truck. 

When the bed was filled with tree trash and barrels of smaller tree trash we drove down the street and emptied the load. Then we loaded it and emptied it again. And once more. The yard pile of undefined size measured out to be three truck loads, although the third trip had lots of leaves on top of the sticks. 

The chain saw was used to cut some of the fallen big limbs further back in the yard, and it will be needed again to deal with the three or four large and rotting stumps at the edge of the yard which are too heavy to lift. Someday, but not today.

The pile was cleared, the big
stumps remain for now.

The pile was gone for approximately five minutes. The sky was blue and the weather was nice, so I stayed out and kept harvesting dead branches. The barrel was filled again and a new pile of sticks and tree trash was started. It felt good to be moving and dragging and snapping dead limbs and seeing the progress in the yard.

While I was playing the latest edition of pick up sticks, the roofer guy arrived. We went over the color roof I like (Black) and my top two choices of siding color (Meadow Fern and Sage). Roofer guy climbed on the roof and checked some things out and measured some stuff. He took the roof samples back but left the siding chips in case there is a problem with availability and I need to choose another color. The next step is the pricing estimate, likely to be followed by a fainting spell or cardiac arrest.