Daddy mostly stayed busy logging, and various ones of us helped him with that. Granddaddy has many acres of woods, and many of those trees are pine. When they get "ripe" he can cut them down, saw them into 12 or 14 foot lengths, and sell them to a lumber mill for making pine planks. Daddy loves the challenge of cutting down those huge trees (which can be 60 feet or more tall!). You have to be really careful with the chainsaw, and sometimes he needs to use wedges to make the tree fall in the right direction. He's gotten quite good at it over the years.
Granddaddy's tractor, one of the essential tools of the logging process.
Got the tree down; now he's cutting it into sections.
Haul away!
Laurie, putting the logging chain around one of the logs. This chain can then be attached to the winch of the tractor, which is what Daddy uses to pull them around.
Laurie and I had been the ones to help Daddy that afternoon. As we were driving back to the house, Daddy asked me to take the truck (which transports the tools, etc.) so that Laurie could drive the tractor. This picture was too cute to pass up. :-)
Another day I spent a fair amount of time at Granddaddy's log-splitter, splitting an oak tree for Granddaddy to use as firewood next winter. That is one powerful tool! All I had to do was push down a lever, and ***crrackkk*** would go the huge 2 to 2-1/2 foot diameter oak logs.
Another day many of us spent the morning in the garden, weeding and working more dirt into the soil.
I think these pictures turned out so hazy because of the humidity that was in the air -- it was incredible how humid it was! Here Juli is working on the asparagus bed....
...while Mama worked on the tomatoes. Grandmother called this "Santa Claus" weeding: "Hoe, hoe, hoe!"
While they were working on the weeding, Laurie was hauling dirt in a wheelbarrow to the upper bed, where she then raked it out smooth. Later Juli tilled it in.
It was a lot of hard work, but the garden certainly looked better afterward.
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