Daylight in the Swamp!

This tree blocked a little too much of the sky from our kitchen window.  In the winter time you want all the sunshine you can get during a short day and a low sun.

So, since I had extra hands available, down it went. "Daylight in the swamp" was a term loggers used in the old days when a big tree went down and opened the canopy overhead.

That evening we burned our brushpile....(yes, those are Christmas lights on that big spruce)

...brushpiles, that is.  I told Mik to flash his headlamp at passing cars so nobody would call the fire department.

A little too big for roasting marshmallows.