…everything looks like a nail” – Mark Twain, possibly

That is a nice saying, but I have an updated version. “To the man with  tractor and front-end loader, everything looks like a target for destruction”. After today I can verify the truthfulness of that statement.

Getting the fire started this morning took more diesel fuel than I would have liked, but eventually the big pile got to burning pretty good. All of the house debris burned along with most of the tulip poplar that was on top. I also threw on some old cedar logs. I debated saving them, but they were in fairly rough shape.

Annie and I also uprooted a number of trees. Below is one of the bigger ones. The still soft ground makes pushing over certain types of trees pretty easy.

As the pictures show it was a glorious day. Hopefully spring is here, although I wouldn’t mind one more good snow storm. I’m worried that a relatively mild winter will mean lots of bugs this year.