Turned out to be a pretty decent day yesterday. It started out pretty darn cold in the morning, but by noon it was near to 60 degrees and it seemed that it was going to be at least that warm for most of the afternoon. After my normal morning of breakfast, comic reading, crossword puzzle doing etc., I finished getting dressed and headed outside.
    I had started cutting down a bunch of trees out near Rima's barn and shed complex last week, and had managed to get well along in downing the 10 trees within this little wooden fenced enclosure. Now it was time to get the rest of the trees and tree parts down on the ground and cut up. All without landing one of them on either the fence or on any of the surrounding buildings if possible. It actually worked out pretty well. In the end I had one tree trunk bounce and bump into the barn without any damage, and I miscalculated the height of one and dropped the top of it onto the top rail of the fence. Managed to bust the top two rails of one section, but only minor damage that should be able to be fixed with some of the old, used spare wood stored in one of the buildings.
    About 6 and a half hours of work had all but one tree trunk on the ground, all the limbs cut off and carted away, and nearly all of the remaining wood stacked into a big pile that will get transported down to the house and cut up for firewood once I can get the wood shed rebuilt. All in all a very good day, but it meant being pretty tired and sore for the rest of the night.
    Looks like another great day outside right now and I'll be out in just a little while after I am done with this. Still a couple more trees outside the barn to cut down and a part of one remaining tree trunk to take care of. Will need to sharpen the chainsaw one more time before starting in, but that is becoming pretty routine.
     Posted below right now though are a couple pictures from last weekend. While hiking out to the tip of Folly Beach we ran across this little guy wiggling across the road. Could tell immediately that it wasn't an actual snake, just because it didn't move like one. It also didn't look like one once you were close up. Anyway, it was pretty cool and I took a few pictures while I could.

Legless Lizard at Folly Beach SC - Apr 12, 2014

While looking a lot like a snake you can just tell it isn't one. Instead it is known as a legless lizard. For some reason evolution went backwards for them. From a regular lizard with 4 legs it evolved to shed them, most likely to take advantage of some niche environment where limbs were a handicap. They still have vestigial limb bones inside their body, and I hear that you can sometimes see little bumps where they are if you turn them over. I didn't do that. 

You really get a sense of how different from a snake this thing is in this photo. The coloring is also really beautiful.

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