Timberrrrrrr! Daddy and Jordan.... "There's a lot of Sap!"

Well today was a pretty interesting day to say the least! Jordan and Daddy worked outside most of the day in the yard at our future house! You see, my great aunts and uncles, Granny and Papa, and Great Grand Parents all loved bushes, trees, and anything flowerish! Of course I like flowers and green (it is my favorite color), but I am completely OCD (CDO actually in alphabetical order) about organization and things having their "proper" place, even if it is in the yard. Jordan, on the other hand, is not as OCD, but he LOVES, I mean, LOVESSSS for a yard to be trim and proper. So, like lumberjacks and Clark Griswald at Christmas, my Daddy and Jordan tackled cutting down a very old cedar tree.

The Cedar tree is the one blocking the house, behind the other plants (boxwoods and bushes that will also be removed). 

Here it is, "Isn't it a beaut?" Huge right.... and blocking the house.

Here is a road view of our future house. We have dogwoods and LOVE those, they are in a straight line, and have order. It makes sense where they were planted, the others, not so much. This is one of the last looks at the Cedar tree before it came crashing down. 

Daddy hard at work sawing off some of the lower limbs, so Jordan could drive the truck and pull it out. It was tied with a long rope about 3 feet above where Daddy is trimming.

Going to town on the tree! See it is HUGE.

Lot of wood!

And it's down, "lot of sap." We decided that Daddy looked like Clark Griswald from Christmas Vacation dragging the Cedar tree out into the old tobacco field next to our house. It was PRICELESS. 

This was only half of the tree by the way. 

This half is going to be used inside the house. Jordan and I discussed some of our renovations with some of our good friends, Kelsie Roper and Taylor Miller. Taylor does construction and sees a lot of different types of wood being used for mantels and such. He suggested using this cedar tree for two mantels that will be used on the fireplaces in our house. 

Boy was he right; this wood will make a beautiful mantel. All of the knots in the wood and the different layers that cedar trees have will make a mantel full of character, just like our house. 

Now, all we have to do is wait for it to dry out- get it cut into mantel boards and put them up when it is finished. 

Needless to say, I am very thankful that my Daddy and my future husband, Jordan can do all of this handyman stuff. I absolutely do not know what I would do without either one of them, even if we do act like the Griswald's from time to time. This is just the next step on our way to making an old farm house and yard, OUR own.