Now that vacation is over, it’s back to work! One of the first orders of business is to clean up the mess from the ice storm. The snow is almost all gone and the branches are released from the grip of the snow and ice.
Maple sap tastes sweet right out of the tree! Here Emma finds a weeping maple and tries to catch the tasty drops. We all started picking up near the back pasture gate.
This big limb was the first order of business as it blocks access to the pasture and the burn piles. All of us pitched in to drag the branches and limbs away and cut up the limb so we could start cleaning up the rest of the yard another day, but be able to use the wagons and tractor to transport the limbs. But today was devoted to clearing this area.