That's grand!!!

 7:52 am - Monday - February 17th - TWW - 39° F, humidity 57%, wind 7 mph out of the south by southeast.....partly cloudy today with a forecast high of 61° F.  On this date in 2013 TLE and I were spending the day in Key West, FL....the furthest southern point in the USA....

.....we drove the T-Bird down to Key West from Marathon Key.  

Our goal for Sunday was to finish burning the last of the tree trimmings which had been sitting for 2 months, which means they were quite dry, and extremely easy to light on fire.....

.....when we began on Saturday that pile of tree trimmings was 10' wide, 30' long and 6' high....that is a lot of burning over two days, but we got it done.....

The burn pile is gone!

We keep nibbling away at that old, dead juniper tree, and now are beginning to cut up the large limbs (left side of picture), which had been previously detached from the tree.

The ash pit left over from the burn pile

....we worked from 10:30 am to 1:30 pm before calling it a day, and putting away all of our tools, although we continued to monitor the 'burn pit' to make sure it would not flare up and start an unplanned fire.  We've still got a couple more piles of tree trimmings to burn, but they are still drying out, and out of the way, so for now we've just got to turn all the remaining large, dry wood piles into firewood.  I think we've got enough uncut wood to last a couple of winters now, we just have to turn it into a usable form.  Just the wood in that still standing dead tree is worth a least one winter, if not more.

Around 2:30 pm TLE got a text message from our youngest daughter, Sharon, advising she was 15 weeks pregnant, and that Brayden (her son) would no longer be an only child....wait, what?  We had hoped to hit double digits in grand children, but thought that ship had sailed a few years ago, so this news was almost like a fairytale.....

.....Brayden has always wanted a brother, and now his wish is coming true.  So, anyway, TLE and I will become grand parents for the 10th time sometime in late July, or early August.  We've been great grand parents for a number of years now, and hope to have many more of them, too.  Life is very good!

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