Monday, August 9, 2010

Cutting Trees for Extreme Exercise

As I have mentioned in my previous posts, my sister Chris had so many big trees at her backyard. Last week we had a storm and I am not sure if the rain made the roots weak that caused the cherry tree collapsed. But anyhow, it fell inside my sister's fence and covered most of her backyard.

The funny thing is that due to the incident, my sister found out that she owns more land than she ever thought. So the city did not want to shoulder the cost of cutting the tree as it is in my sister's property. So last Friday, we came over and helped her cut some of the branches. We did not have the right tool to cut the main body of the tree but we cleared up most of the branches.

Here's how it looks like in her backyard before we cut some of the branches.

I took my wife and kids with me but I did not anticipate my wife helping us. I was amazed how she used the ax just fine. She was really good at it actually. Cutting trees is really a good form of extreme exercise. I was thinking that my body would be sore but luckily it didn't. My wife however have a sore back and arms lol.

While we were busy, Fat Boy and Heide were busy too lol. The photos below were taken by our aspiring 5-year old daughter who started to show her interest in photography.



Have a blessed Sunday to all of you.

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☺lani☺ said...

What a fun weekend, truly memoirs-priceless! Have a nice day!

♥♥ Willa ♥♥ said...

wow! way to go for Rose, I myself don't know how to hold the ax much more using it. I'm scared that by the minute I sway it,it'll go flying out of my hand and i might hurt someone, LOL!

A.Marie said...

Wow! That was a lot of tree branches! That must have been a big tree!!

☆Mama Ko☆ said...

Oh lalala thats a lot of hard work guys, no wonder rose got a blister. Good job rye on taking good pictures.

Verns said...

woahhh, that's a lot.. good job Rye ... Rose could have worn some gloves to prevent blisters... happy monday..

PBW at Table for Five

SASSY MOM said...

Wow! That's a huge tree.

I hope Rose is okay now.

Pixelbug Weekend

admin said...

that's another way for family to get together. :) your daughter did an excellent job taking those pictures... sis Rose worked hard no wonder she has sore back & arms... i get sore arms just by playing wii boxing.. lol :p

-rache

Liz said...

Sounds like a fun weekend.

Happy RT!

Gemma Wiseman said...

A great collection of memories of the cherry tree day! That true is really huge!

reg said...

Lots of hard work there that is for sure

Clarissa said...

Whoa!That's a lot of work!!No wonder Ate Rose feel so much pain on her back--did Ate Rose got a massage from you??I bet she did!^_^

EJ said...

Your bet is right Clarissa, she asked for a massage lol.

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