Park holes, playground, and frog

We walked around to check out the progress in the park. Emma found these huge holes and jumped right in! This is where they a building a picnic pavilion. 

Construction keeps moving along. The construction company has agreed with the town to only work Mon-Fri 7:00 am to 5:00 pm. That way the weekends are quiet. It's fine when school is in because we are all up before 7:00 am. However, construction on this park started right when school got out for the summer. That was a bit of a challenge for us. I have been lucky to sleep in until 7:30 before I am awoken by the noise. I'm glad that school is back in so I am not woken up by the work.

The playground equipment got delivered and they have been slowly putting it together. The company who made the playground equipment sent their own guys to assemble the playground. They did not know about the agreed upon work hours. They started before 6 am on Sat and Sun.  

 A few days later I woke up to this in my yard. They are tunneling under our driveway to run a power line from the box in our yard over to the picnic pavilion. They pulled out a few of my shrubs.  

 That night we found this toad on our driveway as we were pulling in. Thankfully, we did not run over him. He hopped off into the grass in time. He was about the size of my fist. 

The scenery is changing

First, one of our trees got damaged in a storm about a year ago. It had a large split running down it's trunk. It still stood tall, but was slowing starting to lean into the woods. We could tell by the angle that it would not hit our house nor our neighbors house. Today, a few day after a storm I heard some crackling. I called for the girls and we all ran onto the deck and watched this tree come down. We will need to get a tree trimmer to come and take it down the rest of the way.

 Meantime, they have started to work on the park. First, they came in and cleared out the underbrush. Now they are taking out all the trees. It is amazing to watch. They just seem to tap the tree with their backhoe and the whole tree comes falling down. Then they grab it, shake off all the dirt and move it to a pile for logging. 

It breaks my heart. I love gazing out on these woods.

Here's a couple days later: