I am off to visit Aura in Morocco! I am not sure if I can update from the road.... I will try. You can also check out Aura's blog at www.moroccanprincess.blogspot.com I plan to return to Seaview for Memorial Day. Can't miss the World's Longest Garage Sale!! 

The local inspector arrived this morning. She checked out everything Brett did during the weekend. 

Mounds of wood chips. 

Brett and James with the wood chipper. 

Our cat, Calypso, begs to go outside and visit her friends. I am getting so used to the lawn ornaments... who needs topiaries? They are becoming part of the family. From this vantage point... they watch their buddy, Calypso in the window...and can see Brett viewing the morning news on the television.  

Madison and his crew... cleaning up the trees. The boys: Ryan-age 14, Randall-age 12 and Tom-age 13. 

Madison has lunch with his "crew". 

Trees and lots of firewood!

Last month... we woke to the sound of our neighbor's trees being worked on... at 5:30am!!! Geeze...so early. Finally at 6:30am I pulled on my rubber boots and went over to check it out. When I crawled back under the covers...Brett had the same thought.... "Did you get their name and number? At least they show up!" Yup, and now a month later... they came.... at 7 am. We have many trees to work on.

The big old cedar above the Koi pond died last year. We will replace it with a bamboo wind break. 

A total of 12 trees have come down. Now we get to cut them up and clear them away. We had Oscar and crew just lay them on the ground.

The big bucket truck got stuck in the soft ground (after the rains). It took a really big tow truck to pull it out!