Social Distancing Diaries: Day 68

Dear Diary

The Grunt Work Edition

I got to use my favorite limb cutter!

Today was Physical Labor Day. It’s not as enjoyable as National Donut Day, but it does leave one feeling satisfied at the end of the day!

We spent the morning cleaning out the shed and the utility room (our equivalent of a garage). Thankfully Ellen is super pumped about cleaning and organizing, so she tackled the shed. If you followed my Facebook feed this morning you saw all the junk I was able to unload! I’m so happy to pass on things to people who can use them! One of the girls commented that we’ve had more people come to our house during social distancing than before the restrictions! Shhhh, don’t turn us in. Everyone who visits is picking up items from the porch and most of the time I don’t even see them, so it’s really not visiting! But between masks, eggs, and getting rid of things there have been a lot of visitors! 

Checking out the massive stump!

After lunch we paused our clean out and headed over to my dear friend to cut down her dead weeping cherry tree. My dad did the fun work with the chainsaw but Tom, the twins and I chipped in with the grunt work of cutting up the branches. By the way, weeping cherry trees are mostly twigs. And they grow in all directions—not nice and straight. With everyone’s help we finished the job. That was worthy of pizza, so we picked that up on the way home. Tom couldn’t help himself and spent the rest of the evening mowing our entire yard.

Can we just take a moment to collectively wonder how in the world it’s May 20 already?!?!