Friday 10-17-25 Tree Trimming, Errands & Pinball

 

Do the happy dance

 

We had an awesome day. The morning temperature was 64 degrees and the high was 90 degrees.

We started the day by going to town to start our mail again. First stop was the post office. Larry went inside to tell them to start the mail back up. They told him they never stopped the mail. They said they didn't get a form to stop it. Second stop was the UPS Store. Larry was surprised because they stuffed all our mail for the last eight weeks in the small mailbox. The mailbox is only a cubby hole and he couldn't get the mail out. He had to ask the clerk to do it from the back. Before going on our trip Larry told them we were going to be gone for eight weeks. In the past they would hold it in the back but this time they didn't. While at the UPS Store we paid for another year for the box. On the way home Larry treated me to breakfast. We stopped by Jack 'n' Jill Donuts and he bought four donuts.

When we got home Larry checked the mailbox, it had some mail along with the the form telling the post office to hold our mail. Not sure what happened. 

After lunch Larry went outside and worked on the Minnie projects. 

While he was doing this a gentleman, owner of Pedro Navichoc Power Tree Service stopped by to see if we needed any trees trimmed. Larry and Pedro walked around looking at what needed done. Pedro said it would cost $1200. We had all the trees in the back trimmed, two in the front and the limbs that go into Jason's yard. They showed up at 2:30 and didn't leave until 5:30. Larry texted Jason asking him if it was ok to trim the limbs in his yard. He said no problem. The crew was four gentlemen, they used safety ropes to get them up into trees. We watched the crew work. They trimmed a lot more of the trees than we thought they would. But it was ok because now we don't have to get them trimmed for a couple years. We watched a guy shimmy up the truck of a tree in order to throw the rope over an upper branch. Two of the guys worked in the trees, another one used a pole-saw to trim limbs as high as he could reach and another one loaded the trimming into the trailer. They also used chain saws. They worked very hard. They only took a couple of short breaks to drink water. After trimming the big limbs they painted the cut to protect the tree from getting oak wilt. Jason asked if he could have the larger wood. They said no problem. Before they left them cut them into firewood size. They cleaned up very well. We were impressed with their work Larry tipped them for their hard work.The price was cheap for what they did.

 

Climbing up the tree

 

Trimming with a pole-saw

 

Trimming the tree in the backyard

 

Cleaning up the trimmed branches

I played seven games of pinball. They were World Cup Soccer, Tales of the Arabian Nights, Fun House, F-14 Tomcat, Mission Impossible, Theatre of Magic and Fast Break. I didn't get on the board but I had a great afternoon of playing pinball.

 

F-14 Tomcat

 

Fast Break

 

Fun House

 

Mission Impossible

 

Tales of the Arabian Nights

 

Theatre of Magic

 

World Cup Soccer

I worked on our monthly expenses for the two months we were gone. We continued working on catching up with the YouTube videos.

Last night I watched Pretty Woman on YouTube and I forgot to say if I liked it or not. It's still a cute movie after all these years. I enjoyed it a lot. After Larry went to bed I watched Dirty Dancing on YouTube. I enjoyed the movie. 

I also continued reading Death of the Maiden.