My dad called this morning at 7:00 and asked if the kids would like to come and help pick up sticks from the storm. We were more than happy to help. I just couldn't believe my eyes though when we pulled into the driveway. We had one small branch down in our lawn, but pulling into mom and dads driveway was reminded me of helping clean up in Mississippi! There were HUGE branches, tons of twigs, and piles of leaves all laying around ... everywhere. Mom thought we should start on the roof and get all that debree down first!!! :)
The kids and mom started picking up the branches and loading them on the golf cart. One load after the next went into the meadow and dumped. I started blowing with mom's blower and Mommy and I blew all the leaves and little twigs into the meadow.
The heat was heavy and hot. We were dripping sweat as we worked! Unbelievable.
We did most of the clean up work but as we were about finished, Dad pulled in to help. He got on his BIG tractor and was going to move the HUGE branch (seriously, this was the size of our full grown trees at our house!!!). He was going to have to cut it up in pieces to move.
That big pipe was there ... not from the storm.
Mike is off to play some softball in this heat. It's going to be hard but he loves this sport and because he was asked to help in a tournament ... he's out in the hot weather!
