Bonfire

Those men sure did cut down a lot of overgrown trees and branches for yesterday's outdoor "work day" at church. You can actually SEE the sign on the front of the building now -- it's no longer covered by humongous bushes. It looks nice!

They didn't take down my cherry tree. Last June or July somebody took a chainsaw about 1/4 of the way through the base of my cherry. Don't know who. Don't know why. Don't know when. But it sure looks sorry. There are buds, but I'm not expecting it to recover. It will probably have to join the brush pile for a future bonfire.

One of my two elderberries was taken down yesterday. That surprised me. I don't know whether that was a mistake, or if somebody found it dead after a hard winter and decided to cut it off clean down to the ground.

We should've had Smokey the Bear here to keep an eye on the pastor. He let the fire get big enough at one point that it set a nearby tree on fire. Yikes! Well, it was an old thing anyway, on its last legs. It got taken down quickly and added to the pile of burning brush. Some of the folks from church who helped clean up the place yesterday joined us for hot dogs and S'mores cooked over the fire. It was a nice evening.