August 6, 2017

The pear was taken down today.  The front yard looks a bit barren without those trees.

August 5, 2017

August 4, 2017

We had a storm blow through this afternoon, taking out some limbs on our remaining bradford pear.  These trees have a serious design flaw and are susceptible to wind damage like this.  Two limbs were broken off, and those limbs are about 1/3 of the tree.  The same storm knocked down 1/2 of a bradford pear two houses down from us.

August 3, 2017

I went out to the garden and this little bird just sat in the tree and chirped angrily until I stepped over to look at it.  Then it just stared angrily at me, flew off after a bit to a nearby tree, and started chirping again.

August 2, 2017

We crawled around inside the pool to get the wrinkles worked out of the bottom of the liner.  Time to start filling it up.

August 1, 2017

We got the pad, liner, and top rails on the pool today.

July 31, 2017