The Bow Saw

So, my first learn-something-new post. As you can see by the name of this post, I learned how to use a bow saw this week.

(I know I look sort of like my face is made of hair, but I was looking to the left. I promise.)

Okay, so this week I also learned something else: how to string a bow. Buuuut, then we had some storms. We had trees down everywhere. And since it was more recent, I figured I could wait until next week to talk about the bow.

Maybe some of you heard about the tornadoes around southwest Wisconsin this week. We've had a storm every night since Wednesday.

While the tornadoes missed us, we got high winds, lots of thunder and lightning, and lots of rain.

I woke up with my mother telling my a tornado hit my brother's college, 20 minutes away, and that some of the students lost everything they had in their dorms.

We went outside to survey the damage. It was pretty bad, but it could have been a lot worse. There were trees down all over the woods, and even more branches snapped. One tree was completely uprooted. Two trees were on the driveway, and this tree fell down right in front of the expedition:

The leaves were touching it. We had already cleared the branches touching the car before I remembered the camera.

And this is when I learned how to use a bow saw. I know what you're thinking. What is she talking about? Anyone can use a bow saw! Well, that's true. Anyone can use a bow saw. But how many people have? Good for you if you have! Also, when you're cutting logs like this:

It gets a lot more difficult. Now after a bunch of cutting:

And a few breaks for strawberries from the garden:

We got the tree in front of the expedition down to . . .

That. Short enough to drive past, which was good enough for us. And we used the chainsaw to finish it. Then there was the yard:

I wish you could see it better, but there were leaves, branches, and twigs all over the yard. This is only a small portion of it. Thankfully, I had my older sister and brother, Sarah and Ben, to help clean it all up. Since the little kids stopped working when it started to get boring:

(Noah)

Well, that's what I learned! I'll post again next week about how I learned to string a longbow!

Ta ta for now!

Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not;
neither decline from the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 4:5

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