There's Work to be Done

 Hubs and I have been working in the woods, as you probably know if you've been here long enough.  Why not?  It's cold enough to fend off the ticks and the snakes.  Plus, it's awesome exercise that doesn't bore the hell out of me.  

Anyway, I took some pics of what exactly needs to be cleaned up out there, to give y'all an idea of what I'm talking about...

I call this one 'Crap to Clean Up':

Loads of downed cedar trees, limbs, and branches throughout that.  And this is the black cherry tree that fell back in May of 2024:

The main trunk on the left is still standing.  It's about 10 feet tall and the rest of it stretches away from there.  Here's the other end of it:

Then there's the sycamore that fell over about 3-4 months before the black cherry:

What you can't really see is the root ball behind me, which stand about 6-7 feet.  And the trunk on that sucker is about 2 feet across.  It's a monster.  Here's where the top is laying:

All that needs to be cleared out, plus the crap not pictured - fallen limbs and smaller trees, etc. - so we can walk around on our property.  I'm not sure how much we'll get done before it gets too warm to go in the woods again, but we'll do our best.  

We'll burn what we can and stack the rest.  The piles make good critter habitat.  Here's the most recent pile:

We have several of these on our original property and this is the third we've put on the new piece.  Bunnies and chipmunks really love these.  Birds, too.  And, unfortunately, the occasional skunk.  LOL, it's all good.  

Anyway, doing this makes me happy.  I love being in the woods.