We arrived in Augusta November 20 and spent several days exploring the area with Anita's brother Dan. Augusta is growing and it is surely helpful to have a long-time resident show us around. Thanksgiving in Augusta was our first truly planned stop on this trip.
One of the things we did was to help Dan remove a tree from his back yard. Dan has a nicely landscaped back yard with close to a dozen big yellow pine trees. He has thinned them out some over the years. The little tree we removed was too close to the neighbor's fence and over the neighbor's garage.
Dan's neighbor, Gary, also helped. The tree was relatively small compared to other trees in the yard but it was still quite tall. We trimmed out some lower limbs, tied the trunk into the large pine tree beside it, and tied it off to another pine tree. Then we cut the tree off at the base and began to lower it with the rope, removing top limbs as we could reach them from Gary's garage roof.
It went pretty well, all things considered. We did manage to leave Dan with some cleanup to do after we left.
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