Well we are back from Coeur D Alene Idaho. We had the best time at the Digs and at Uncle Wes' and Eli, Emilee and Ivy's. It was so fun to spend time with family. At the Digs they are going to have a lot of people up there in the next few weeks; Mom and Dad, Aunt Patty, Mo and Carr and about 70 other people for Karaoke! Go Veda. She has won prizes on cruises!

I have been back to school trying to get my room put back together, my files cleaned out and a I have a new arrangement. Donna my old partner and friend has been coming up to help me. It is so nice to have here there to help me. She already knows what to do and it has saved me so much time. She is such a good worker and friend! Plus she works for free!

In case you have not heard, at my school some kids set the playground on fire. It is now gone and will cost about 40 thousand dollars to replace it. It was only 3 years old and we will not be getting new equipment until winter break. It is just so sad for the kids. Glad I am not on recess duty!

Jim is back to work too. I miss him when he is gone. However, I was able to do nothing but read one day and I finished "The Help by Kathern Stockett". I wanted to read it before I saw the movie, so now I am ready to go!

We had our first 90 degree day this weekend. It was very warm, but when you are sitting around doing nothin, it is survivable. Back to cool weather today, and maybe even drizzle tomorrow.

After

The busy workers left at about 5:30. They did a really good job cleaning up but now Dad and I need to decide what to do in the empty blue spruce place, and get the wood loaded.

More pictures of the tree removal

Here are more pictures of the back yard. It is just after 3:00 and they are done with the back yard, just a few more clean ups and they have started working in the front yard.

And timber!, on the blue spruce in the front yard.

It's raining sawdust

The worker bees have been busy. In just a little over an hour thy got three of the back trees almost all done One, two, three. I made them cookies and they (the four men) took a break before they got the third one. This is where the swing set use to be.

Right behind the deck.

Before

Tomorrow there will be several workers at our home. They will be taking out 4 trees and cleaning up some fruit trees, the big cherry tree out front and the arborvitaes. I took the before picture for you to see. Tomorrow I will take the during and after pictures. Our back yard will look really different with 3 trees missing.