The Hunt is ON!: Taking Down the Tree

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Taking Down the Tree

Grandma's house had a tree that was trying to fall on the roof. The guys got together so they could chop it down.

They put a metal bucket on the forks, and climbed in. Matthew and dad were 50 feet in the air at times. They had to cut off the branches in chuncks so they could get it to the ground with out taking out power or phone lines. It took about 4 hours to take out 2 trees. Both trees were hollow clear down through to the roots.

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Unknown said...: HOw come u left out the part about the bees???? that was the funniest part...hehehehe. Loves; February 3, 2010 at 12:29 PM

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FUN!!

the young men and young women in our ward decided to do something fun for their activity for the end of the summer. All 6 groups had to build a boat, it could be made out of anything you wanted as long as it only cost $35.00. All the boats were made (Kary's group- the teachers- built a 12 foot long, 4 foot high, pirate ship) the whole group headed out to Quail Resevoir to have a race and see who would float. Tyler's group tied a matress to some big foam blocks, and Matthew's group took a large sheet of plywood, cut two holes in the middle, put buckets in to sit in, then put big round pipes under the edges. It was an interesting sight when all the boats got to the water. Matthew helped build his boat, but he had football practice while the activity was going on so- Craig took his place on the boat. To make a long story short, the priests (Matthew's boat) won the race, Deacon's got second, then the girls after them. The pirate ship- it sank. But not before the boys had time to bomb the other ships with water balloons. All of the kids had fun.