Chopping Down our Tall White PIne

Jim McWilliams cut down the tall white pine right outside my computer window that the woodpecker was destroying. He spent a good part of the afternoon in the tree with his electric saw chopping it down piece by piece. The other workmen are outside now cleaning up the debris. Jim has a machine that shreds all the limbs and green. He put the big stumps in the back of his truck. I took a picture of him in the tree and maybe later I will put it on the computer. I sat in our rocking chair and knitted and watched just to see how he did it. The scariest part was when he sawed off the very top and threw it on the ground. Griffin sat on the porch. IT is a gorgeous day but a bit chilly.

This morning I took Griffin over to the vet to get a form so He can go with Tucker on an airplane to California. HE will use the same dog house that Bradley sent Kamila to us in.
I was surprised at how big the vet's office was. IT looked like there were ten veterinarians on the staff. Avery nice young women worked with me whose grandfather started the clinic. Tucker is flying from California tomorrow.
I am going to make cheese souffle for dinner because we have lots of eggs and cheese in the house.

White Pines Reshaped- Aiko and The Mouse

Jim McWilliams and his helper where here all day taking limbs off the two trees at the top of the drive way. Jim is the man helps Rick with our yard work. Both trees now have very strange shapes but they are still there. They also cleaned up all the debris that was in big piles around the yard and also cleaned up the yard and the driveway so they now look decent. I did not take any pictures but maybe I'll take some tomorrow since they will be back to cut down what I call the woodpecker tree. I can see it right now out the window behind the computer. There are large and small holes the woodpecker made for at least twenty feet up the tree. At the bottom of the tree is a pile of bark that the woodpecker took out of the tree. Jim Mcwilliams told me that when a tree is old beetles live in the tree and woodpeckers go after them.

Last night after we went to bed and were just about asleep we had another adventure. Aiko kept crawling around the bed making lots of commotion. She would not settle down. Finally, I decided to turn n the light. Low and behold there was a dead mouse on our bed spread and Aiko was staring at it proudly. I screamed. Rick woke up. He wrapped the mouse in toilet paper and threw it outside. Aiko has brought other dead mice to us but never to our bed. I finally went to sleep.
I worked on a picture album. One of my goals right now is to look through old album and put the pictures in safe archival albums and write in these albums. I am not very good at keeping records of family events and this is one of my new resolutions for the New Year.
I called my brother later in the day. He told me he had been to the doctor. He has to go to a skin doctor tomorrow and have some moles removed I told him my story so that he would not be nervous. He told me about visiting Mary Anne and eating at her house on Sunday.
I am going to add a picture of Jim McWilliams doing tree work. Even though it is not from today.