Our plan was to meet Daddy at the office park to ride bikes in the empty parking lot. I thought that sounded like great fun, and they boys did, too...our new bike riding plan until Cal gets a handle on the brakes.
It was fun, but it got so much better when the tree service guys pulled in with 3 trucks. This was our next hour....
Cal and Jack sat on the step....really it was more like, Calvin sat on the step and Jack followed, edging closer and closer to his brother until he was nearly on his lap.
Calvin stood up and moved around on the step to get a better view, so Jack stood up to follow, again edging closer and closer. I think Calvin was oblivious to his little shadow.
Calvin is into counting everything these days, so he counted the tree guys....one, twooooo, threeee, fourrrrr, five.........pointing to the same 4 guys multiple times until he got to eleventeen, fifteen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty! Actually I couldn't hear the exact numbers, but it usually goes something like that before he counts carefully a second time to get it right.
Then, of course, Jack started counting the guys...fie, siii.
And then the work began....quite impressive, really! They took down the whole three in about 45 minutes, and every part of it was powerful. The guy scaling the tree with a chain saw, the grinder reducing huge limbs to sawdust in a few seconds, the rope hoisting a load of limbs up the hill to the grinder, the guys carrying large branches over their shoulders, and of course the noise of chain saws, trucks, and grinders all running at the same time. The boys (and Dan) were in heaven. Jack could not contain his joy....clapping and cheering every time the grinder finished a large branch.
Luke missed the whole experience, asleep in the carrier....He has been working on a tooth for a day or so....lots of drool and gnawing on fingers. But in true Luke style, he's not too upset about it. Sweet buddy!
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