Logger Pups

Well, this morning was a repeat of yesterday except an hour earlier and minus the DWP guy. But on to today's topic: yard cleaning.

Believe it or not, Lilah is a big help when I do yard work. Well actually, Lilah can be a big help when I do yard work. I can sometimes count on her to help me dig up and rip out some roots. There's something about her claws that break through the dirt and get around tree roots like no one's business. She's also got one strong jaw, which she uses to loosen up stubborn roots. One time she helped me pull down some vines that had grown up two stories in our trees.

Today I decided to cut down some dead birch trees in the backyard. They were over 12 feet, but not that thick/heavy. The difficulty was due mostly to the overgrown morning glory vines which tangled all the birch tree branches together. I got around it by cutting each tree in half with a saw, nothing special.

Lilah, despite her size, is very wily and surprisingly strong. She loves to chew on things in the backyard. So while I was battling the vines and the branches, Lilah was right in the thick of it, running the risk of getting hurt should the tree suddenly fall. She was tearing at vines, chewing on the cut edge of the trunk, whatever she could get her mouth on.

When I finally tossed the freed trunk aside, Lilah was right there chewing on an end and dragging it to her little shade patch. She lay in the middle of graveyard of dead birch tree. While she was busy chewing on a tree trunk, Ritter was content with his little branch.