tree trimmer | A Moment in the SONshine

WOW! I know I said I wasn’t going to post every day anymore but how did it get to be 4 days later! Yea, that stuff pretty much happens with me ALL THE TIME. LOL Oh well, it is what it is.

The last 4 days have been crazy. Crazy good and crazy busy! LOL

Starting on the 4th the kids went back to school after CHRISTmas and New Year break. My mom was here also and we went through a TON of stuff I’ve been dying to get through! Slowly making progress here…
She went home with a car packed of stuff to store in her basement for this massive garage sale we’re going to have in the spring. I wanted to drop about a third of it off to Salvation Army because I’m just done with it all, but I let her convince me to try to G.S. most of it first THEN Salvation Army it. Hey – as long as it’s out of my space I don’t care. HA!
I should have taken a pic of my mom’s car load but alas, the only pic I have is of sweet Molly entertaining herself in the middle of the floor, aka: right where we walk…

The 5th, Oh I had great plans for this day. I did! I’ve gotten so much accomplished around the house and I was motivated to keep going. I had dropped the kids off, Molly and I were home and she was doing awesome occupying herself, and I had my morning coffee in hand. Then the doorbell rang…

Tree Trimmer guy was at my door letting me know they were being sent around to trim tree’s to close to the power lines. He walked me into the backyard and showed me the power lines he was talking about and told me pretty much what they were going to start doing in about 20 min. Yea, not much choice about it as it a required thing not to mention a safety hazard not to. I guess the last time it was done was 8yrs ago and wow – had these tree’s grown!
I didn’t get much of anything accomplished after that. Well, nothing but Molly, Wyatt (the dog), and I playing outside until the guys came then I decided to start snapping pics of the guys “topping” my tree’s. Oh and for the record, when they tell you they are going to “top the trees”. Make sure you know what they mean. I did but still, what they refer to as “topping” I’d more refer to as cutting down a fourth of my tree but hey, like the guy said, I do “still have at least a 20ft privacy fence”.

And this side ended up not being “to bad”. I’ve decided I actually have a better view of the sunset(s) now! =)
The right side on the other hand ended up looking like extremely high, well pruned hedges!

How lucky those poor tree’s were to grow directly under the power lines. There was no room for anything but a straight line cut. At least it’s not the view we see easily and it’s mostly hidden by another tree (especially in the summer) and our playset! LOL

Molly on the other hand could care less what they were doing. Well, I take that back, she was terrified that our dog Wyatt was going to get hurt when I insisted on chaining his whiny butt up outside so I didn’t have to listen to him anymore. Of course I am the one who told her not to let him out under any circumstance and proceeded to tell her why. Had to tho – she is awful about letting this dog in and out, in and out, in and out… even if he doesn’t want to do either one! LOL

Seriously tho, It was pretty crazy to not only watch and be glad it wasn’t my job to do it but also to see – my side yard looked like someone was getting ready to set up a CHRISTmas tree stand! HA!

Yesterday, the 6th, … *GASP* I didn’t take one pic… oh wait! Yes I did, it’s on a phone camera – WHEW! Thought I messed up my 365 photo thingie I’m doing. That pic will have to come on later but it’s a fun(ny) one!
Anyway, Yesterday, the 6th. I dropped kids off at school (OK. Lets just assume I do this everyday unless it’s a weekend, or holiday LOL) then came home, got dressed, and Molly and I went and did some shopping. Mostly grocery shopping with a quick trip into Salvation Army too. Wow I love that store! Our local one is amazing and I have to say, it’s great for retail therapy! Yep. that was yesterday! Nice easy laid back day – I can say that because Molly actually sat in the cart the whole time! That never happens! Dare I admit I let her play with my new Kindle Fire! LOL!

And onto today, the 7th and Saturday. Wow, Can’t believe the day is over already! It was a GREAT day here! The boys (all two of them) took off as soon as they could politely escape today because Eliana was able to have a friend over ~~and Jeff~~ and Ethan just couldn’t handle yet another girl in the house! So they roamed around Home Depot, got some lunch, and saw “The Adventures of TinTin” Somehow their little outting ended up lasting much longer then our play-date did but Oh how joyful Ella was for this day of hers! I think she got all of us girls just as excited!! YAY!
We did a little craft I found on Pinterest. (LOVE THAT SITE!) The craft was these hardened yarn balls that the girls could hang from their ceilings, or do whatever with. Ours are still in the drying process and therefore still have the balloons in them but this is what they look like so far…

Yea, obviously, if you clicked on the Pinterest link you’d probably notice we didn’t use nearly enough yarn! HA! But it was fun. Sadly, I didn’t get any pics of the entire thing because it was so messy! My hands were covered in wet tacky glue! Not touching the camera with hands like that. Nope – no pic is worth that risk. LOL

However I did get pics of the little girls making bird seed tubes and pine cones later on after Ella’s friend went home. The boys had come home and suddenly the little girls no longer existed to their big sister as her dear older brother had returned and he always has her eager attention first. But that’s Ok today because we had a blast!

And yes, the bird seed tubes are another Pinterest-found idea!

Here’s what you need:
* Toilet paper tubes or cut up paper towel tube(s)
* The least expensive peanut butter you can find.
(because chances are you will get birdseed in it somehow and will not be eating from this jar.)
* Birdseed
…and my daughter found some teeny tiny pine cones she wanted to do as well so here we are, ready to start!

It’s really pretty simple, you just slap on the ‘ol peanut butter and then roll in the birdseed. Wha-lah, your done!
(Don’t forget your string if your doing pine cones too!)