A little work done

The goal for today was a solid half day of work work, then go and do some house work. Got the work stuff done, then had to take care of Mara and eat lunch.

My goal for the house work was to start the chainsaw. That was it. I was a bit afraid of trying to start it. I haven't actually used a chainsaw in ohh, 15 years or so, back when I was a teenager on the farm. Plus last time I tried, I completely failed to start it, although it wasn't my fault probably. I watched a video and re-read the manual. And I started it! It took a little bit, the pull start was really hard to pull at first, but once I gave five or six pulls, it loosened up and I was able to start it without flooding the engine. Woo!

Then I looked at the tree.

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I'm now back inside and answered some work emails that popped up. I have plans to do other projects tomorrow afternoon and all day Friday (shelf for cones of yarn, ramp for Mara for my parents' house) and only the ramp needs to be done before we go traveling for Christmas. I think the tree will wait until next week when I get back with knowledge and some thought put into where the logs will actually go after I cut the tree up. And all the limbs. hmmm