OSHA Would Not Approve

Well we had the wonderful opportunity to go out to Mountain Home, AR again and slave away at clearing trees devastated by last month’s ice storm. We were getting a very large fire going until the neighbor told us there was a burn ban (probably a wise idea as part of the in-laws’ land had already caught on fire this week due to the neighbor’s burning ice storm debris).

So we packed up the trailer and toted some off to the dump site. As we clean up more and more of the stuff on the ground Miranda’s mom gets more and more eager to get the limbs that are still dangling from the trees. So each time we go out she encourages me to climb higher and higher. (She says it’s to clear the limbs, but it could be her subtle way of thinning out the unsavories from the family tree.)

From picture one it does not seem like such an issue to remove the limbs…

Picture two shows that maybe I should have some used OSHA approved safety equipment.

Picture three shows the real danger of the day...Dan in the bucket while his father-in-law drives. Show of trust or example of insanity? You decide.

Funny thing is that, in the end, Miranda was left with burns when an errant ember eluded her evasive endeavors and embedded itself on her epidermis, Tom (Miranda’s dad) severely scraped his shins while (not so) skillfully skittering away as a seriously stubborn stick sought a settling of scores for his sturdy sawing, and Dan, though placed on many a precarious perch, passed the partially pleasant performance without problem or pain.