Finishing up with the trees

The tree guys are mostly finished. All the trees are down and the pieces hauled away. They still have to come back and repair the broken window (next week sometime). And they have said they're going to spread some straw (with grass seed) over the yard to help mend the bobcat tracks and divots from falling trees that were left. We shall see.

The trees seemed to be mostly healthy, although one was dying at the top. That doesn't help when some of those tornadic winds come through, though - and they'd still fall in our house or the neighbor's house. So we're glad they're gone. John's going to plant one of the Tennessee state trees in the back yard. It’s called a tulip poplar here because of the shape of the leaves. It's also called a yellow poplar. They're fairly fast growing, and make a nice, tall, well-shaped tree.

John worked more on the back steps this afternoon. He had gotten some non-skid strips and applied them to the stair treds. The steps have always been slippery when they were wet, so this is a good safety move for us.

I've made my pot of split pea soup for the winter. We got it bagged up (13 quarts) and in the freezer. That’s always one of our favorites, and it’s good to have a supply.
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Dry season housing along the Mekong River in Vietnam