Trees.....here we come.

It’s the end of Easter weekend and for us it’s been a nice weekend. Most families have other families that are lifelong friends and Sue and Steve are one of those. Our family friendship goes back nearly 40 years. Our children grew up together, we had family holidays together, and as we got a bit older the four of us travelled a lot together. Now that we and they are in our early retirement with no children at home, they like us do house sitting, and at other times live in their caravan travelling the country, or being ‘on the wallaby’ as the saying goes in Australia.

We are inclined to drink a bit much coffee, indulge in a nice drop of red, and the men like a rum and coke as we play long winded games of cards.

This couple comes into the category of ‘true friends’. They are kind, loyal, helpful, generous and always on hand if they are needed. So we really enjoy our time with them.

This weekend Peter had a little job to do. We are in this house sit until the house sells or until the owners decide to do something different with the house. And this house has a very good fireplace. Last winter we used it most nights.

 

Queensland is tropical, but we have been very surprised to find that over the past 13 years we have lived here we have acclimatised and we, like the locals find the winter evenings cold so we like to have some heating. We need some firewood for this winter, and Peter had arranged with one of our sons to come and help cut a couple of trees down.

The home owner has a Stihl chain saw, but Peter had never had it going. With Steve’s help they got it working fine.

When the home owner was here last, he pointed out a couple of trees that needed to come down, they were dead and would make good firewood. So today Peter and Steve decided to get the chain saw going.

 

Not sure if there is a spark plug in there.

Maybe we need to check it out first.

Lets find the tools

It's a Stihl....it should go okay.

What do you reckon? Give it a go?

Yes works a treat. Firewood on the way.