Summer 2011

By June 2011, things were happening.  A second woodpile had appeared courtesy of the Elven Axeman (BRIAN)...

The bees were packing the leaning oak with honey, and swarming when I passed too close in that big black and yellow garden tractor.  All I know is that I'd circle from behind and go full throttle past the hive.  I never got stung; I must have looked like a giant bee.

The neighbors were going full-out on their house.  They sure cleared a lot of the trees before they started...and even some more when they started on the bulkhead.  We were eyeing the ones on our lots we really wanted to save and which ones to which we might say good-bye.  Plenty of time to decide.

There's also one going up across the street.  Looks like our end was going to get developed after all.

Big dead live oak that the Elven Axeman took care of...except for the massive stump that is still in place...all of his elfish magic couldn't get it out of the ground.  The rest made most excellent firewood, some of which kept us warm on this year's squirrel hunt.


Big Blue, lookin' good in the neighborhood.

The next post will jump ahead a year to this past summer.