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Tree, hummers, new pictures

I added some new pictures today. So we had a tree that was growing through the fence in the back corner of the backyard behind the shed. It looks like it'd been there, growing, for quite a few years. It had grown through a space between two boards in the fence, and had actually pushed one of the boards off the fence, pulling the nails out. After that, it grew more branches, and it actually started to push the fence apart at the top. Anyway, it had to go. So I cut it off at the fence top and hauled off the limbs. Next I pulled the last couple of nails out that were holding that section of fence up, and got better access to the trunk, and I sawed that off as low as I could. I started putting the fence back together, and realized that I had to cut out part of the stump to even do that. I ended up using a large drill bit to take out a chunk of the stump. After that it was pretty easy to put everything back together with some screws. By this time it was dark, so you'll have to wait on pictures of the finished product.

We also hung up the hummingbird feeder that Erika's folks gave us recently.

Then I posted some pictures of Erika's raised bed, and the grass sprouting from about a week ago. That's all for now.