Early spring

 Today was such a lovely spring day. You can feel the energy flowing through your body. That you just keep busy and don't go inside. That you forget that you also have to eat, and keep thinking, just finish this job, it's still so nice outside....

Twilight is now slowly setting in. The last rays of the sun turn the treetops golden yellow. In the distance 3 deer are grazing on the field. Every evening they emerge from the forest edge on their way to the lake. The birds sing their evening song, the sound of children playing further up the road, the neighbor going out for a while with his hunting dogs.

We are making good progress in clearing the storm tree. With the axe, Sander first chopped off all the branches this week, so that today only the trunk was left. Because this is such a big trunk, it is easier to cut it with a "crosscut saw" or two-person pull saw. This is a sweaty job and requires good cooperation. Each stands on one side of the trunk, alternately, then one, then the other, pulling the saw toward him.

It takes a few strokes to get into the rhythm, but then it goes like the lightning. The sawdust flies in all directions. Deeper and deeper eats the saw its way down. Until it comes to an abrupt stop. The tension in the wood is too great and is jamming the saw blade. With one last tug, the saw comes loose. In this way we saw the whole trunk, until it will not go futher. Then it is time to turn the trunk half a turn with the felling lever and then saw all the blocks from the other side.

One by one fall the blocks to the ground and soon the sawing is done for today. Enough other chores for the rest of the day though.....