Tree down

We’d had a day pottering around in the garden, and we’d been talking about removing some dead fir trees that are looking brown and twiggy. There’s five of them in all. We are not sure why they died, although I do think they just didn’t like the hot summers we have here. We agreed it would be good to wait for some help, to pull them out completely with the roots attached.

I’d nipped in to sort some lunch, and when I came back out Brian had taken three of the trees down and laid them in the courtyard.

“Wow! How did that happen?” I asked. “Thought I’d just give it a go, and they just pulled straight out”.

Straight after lunch the chain saw came out and he made short work of cutting them up. Three down, two to go…