"Won't You Be My Neighbor?"

We've hardly seen our neighbors this winter, but as we came into the neighborhood on Sat. after a 10 mile bike ride on the Greenway in Raleigh, there were a couple of neighbors out in their yard across the street...

You see, there has been a dead tree that has dropped some pretty good sized limbs lately, so since it was such a beautiful day, it was time for the tree to come down.  It's always helpful to have some "support" on a project of this magnitude.

Especially when the saw gets stuck in the tree!

After breaking several ratchet straps...

and puzzling over how to get this monstrosity down...

the beast finally gave way!

It made a loud crashing sound (well, of course, it was a big crash!)

Then the work really began & everyone pitched in...

We only blocked one car from coming in... one neighbor had been to the grocery & had cold things in the car, so she took them out & walked up the hill to her house to put them away.

Many hands made quick work & it was all cleaned up quickly.  It only took an hour & a half to bring down the tree...  The clean up?  Not so much...

And it was so nice to see some neighbors again!