Prairie Loggers...

I don't know how many of you have seen the Discovery Channel show American Loggers, it is a show about a group of loggers and what happens as they do their logging jobs.  The following is our version...Prairie style.

Randy's tool of choice...

mine was a rope, gloves and good 'ole manual hauling power.

This is the tree that we took down.  

It was a Mulberry tree that never produced purple berries...

only green.  I really hope that it wasn't planted for a special reason by the previous owners.  Randy thinks it was a 'volunteer tree'.  

I hated to take down a tree....but we have plans for this area of our yard.  I don't mind some of the natural prairie grass look, but when I look out the kitchen windows...it always looks like weeds to me. 

I want to see color and lots of it.

This my Prairie Logger in action...

He made pretty quick work of cutting down this tree.

I got to get in on the action too!

We wanted to protect our neighbor's fence, 

so we tied a rope to this branch and I pulled it towards our yard

while Randy sawed the trunk.
Tim-ber...

Poor tree....

Such beauty in a freshly cut branch though.

The chainsaw was smoking by the time 

he got done with the stump.

And the tree was a little charred.

Nice load to take to the dump.

Amazing how one big tree can be reduced to a trailer load...

My plans for the triangle area include a few trees,

lilacs, peonies and some annuals in a cute wood piece

that I saw on Pinterest.  The hubs & I need to do some planning.

There are no plans for what I found...

we'll have to make up our own design.

I'd love a water feature...

but hubby isn't too keen on that idea.

I think he has visions of this floating 

through his head when I suggest that.

Hmmmm....wonder why he doesn't want a water feature???
(Now, just so you don't think he did this by himself...
I did help.  There was just no one to take pics of it.)

We'll see what our landscape designer comes up with,

but I can already see it in my head.

What kind of outdoor projects do you have planned?