04-13-25 busy afternoon
I had a relaxing morning, trying to get my new phone set up mostly and then decide to jump in the shower after lunch. When I got out, I could hear voices and then there was a bang on the door. It was Roger with Lukas and Sawyer here to deal with my willow tree. What a wonderful surprise as I had talked to Roger about it but not made a plan he has this super cool battery operated little chainsaw on the end of a pole that can extend. It was so hard to watch half my tree disappear, but I am hoping that is alive enough that new growth will come out of the parts we left. I did start a fire and started burning off some of the smaller sticks. He took a truckload of the bigger stuff away. And we got to that point just as it was time for me to leave for the arena to do 50-50 for the afternoon hockey game.
At one point, I took a quick picture and sent it to my cousin Jeanne to confirm that one of these young men was her grandson, Kye. Imagine his surprise when I called out hey Kye, do you guys mind moving so I can see the game too? I quickly told him I was his dad‘s cousin, and there was a chuckle all around. They were very polite and moved out of the way immediately. As it happened, I got to see very little of the game because the 50-50 pot kept getting higher and higher and the lineup was getting longer and longer and from about half an hour into the game until some minutes into the third period I was constantly selling tickets. In the end it got up to almost 12 grand and nobody claimed it!
Good news was we won one nothing knocking the Smokeaters out and moving onto the next round.
It was very nice to get home and appreciate how much was done in my yard even though there is much to do with clearing up the branches still. I may have to reach out for help though because my foot is on fire after walking on all the uneven grass today, raking and stooping to pick up branches and leaves and then walking on the concrete for the game. I need to be more careful 
triumphgal 