Yardwork

Since it was so nice outside, I thought I would finally prune the butterfly bush. It started leafing out last month, but each time I've thought about it since then has been dark or rainy. But today it finally got pruned.

And D took down a tree that was half-dead. It wasn't too big, but it was quite close to another tree, so it was interesting getting it down. It kept getting stuck in the other tree. D cut it, we pulled it down the slope some - until it got stuck, then he cut it again and we pulled again. Then a third time was the charm - well, that and some manuvering up and over (a fork of tree1 was caught in a fork in tree2). The cats were quite interested in the whole process. Here is S inspecting the stump. Moments before he was posing like a statue on a pedestal.