Trail Cleanup

This morning Linda fixed everyone sausage, eggs and biscuits for breakfast. After eating, I headed to the top of the hill behind the hay shed on the blue Ford Tractor with the bush hog. Brent, Pauline and Stacey came up in the Mule with loppers and a chainsaw in back. I didn't see Linda for a while, but she finally made it to the top. She said she had walked up and lopped limbs on the way up. The plan was that Pauline drove the Mule with Brent standing in back lopping the limbs that were low enough to hit his head. That was the same height as the top on the tractor, so I had told him to use his head as a gauge. Stacey was getting out and throwing some of the limbs in the woods alongside of the trail. I followed on the tractor, pushing old stumps out of the ground and into the woods. I had the bush hog running to chop up the limbs that Brent was dropping. Linda caught up with us and started lopping some of the limbs she could reach from the ground. On one trail, that was heavily over grown, Linda and Brent rode in the scoop of the tractor as I drove it through they lopped off the limbs and the bush hog chewed them into little pieces. Lucky for us, it was overcast and a lot cooler than it had been in a while. We headed back down the hill and I was bush hogging the other side of the trail as I came down. We made it back to the house a little before 10 AM. We ate more birthday cake and played a couple of games of Euchre then I took a shower and we all went upstairs and watched some movies. We had a late lunch of home grown tomatoes and chicken salad and Pauline and Brent left with their dogs around 4:30 PM. Linda and I went outside and mowed the yards on the house side of the highway.