What did you do today?

We watched our neighbor chop down the dead tree in his yard.

Yeah, that one, the big ivy-covered one behind the missing parts of our fence.

Parker seriously spent the entire morning, sitting in this chair, watching their progress from my bedroom.

After about two hours, he finally got bored and we went to the front yard to watch...

...where we could actually see even better!

They finished limbing the tree right around lunch time, so we sat on the porch, eating lunch and watching the giant logs come falling down.

The final result:

Yes, the majority of that is in our yard, but I expect that by the time the kids wake up from their naps, our backyard will be more-or-less back to normal.  Except maybe for those two fence posts, which I suspect may never be the same again (one of them got completely destroyed by a falling log).  Fortunately, our neighbor is also a contractor, so fixing the fence is his headache.