Front Row Seats

This afternoon Nathan and some of the children set up their camp chairs and had a front row seat to watch tree limbs come down on the trees in their front row. The top picture was taken about 15 minutes before the bottom one and I think that you can see that the tree limbs had been thinned out quite a bit. They were having dead branches cut out and branches that hang over their house cut off. In the first picture it had just started to rain and the boys had decided to use the extra camp chairs as covers. By the time the second one was taken the threat of rain had passed and it was hard to take a picture because of so much more sun shining through the thinned branches. It wasn't the best time of the day to try to take pictures of the efforts. I know that boys old and young were quite interested in the process. Graham said that he knew that he wouldn't want the job of going up in the cherry picker...there were times that the cherry picker was just about totally vertical...pretty high up work! He said that he thought that he might like to drive the fork lift. We all hoped that he would be a bit more careful in his driving than this fork lift driver was! Woody had two walks today. He headed off to walk to his barber...but the barber was closed so Woody turned that walk into a four-mile walk. Then this evening he walked to Life Care Center to turn on the Thursday night football game of the week for Jeff...and walked back...about seven miles total for that walk. So he walked about eleven miles today. He has also done some yard work. Nathan and Elijah fixed our mailbox today...it needed a new support board to keep it up. They got a new one, nailed it on and then painted it. That should keep it from falling off when either we or the mailman open it! I had school this morning with six of the seven. After lunch I vacuumed our bedroom and bath and also did a lick-and-a-promise down the upstairs hall and into the school room and sewing room. When the phone rang this afternoon, I remembered to tell Woody that we had gotten our reminder automated call from Vanderbilt last night. I was a bit surprised, when I answered the phone today and it was Vanderbilt again (this time a real person rather than an automated voice)! She was calling to give specific instructions prior to his PET scan on Tuesday...don't eat or drink after midnight, don't exercise 24 hours prior to scan, and be there thirty minutes before the appointment...that means that we need to be there by 7:15 in the morning...oh, my...definitely getting up with the birds that morning...of course, going that early usually means that we miss the morning rush hour. We had a light rain this evening besides the few drops that we got this afternoon. Woody said that he didn't get wet on his walk to and from Life Care.