Perhaps you'd heard me talking about how the storm that blew through Chippewa Falls last weekend took a tree down in our front yard. A big 'ol oak tree that was, I'm guessing, ready to fall because it was slowing rotting from the inside out-- when it fell, it was almost half hollow.  Anyway, it took me over a week-- and the invaluable help of the greatest neighbors on the planet-- to get things finally cleaned up.  And, they finally are.  So I had Sue take the following celebratory photo of me in front of all the lumber...



Hey, I told you it was a BIG tree.  Then, after the big clean-up was finally done, THIS was the scene from the palacial St. John/Kelly estate deck...



Gotta love summer in Wisconsin!