are you strong enough to be my man?

over the past few months we have been getting our backyard ready to embark on the beginnings of what will be a very long makeover. most of the projects have been labor intensive and both ryan and i have found ourselves sore on occasion. this past weekend ryan did some work on his own that left him virtually immobile.

about a month ago we had some tree work done - trees trimmed, trees removed, etc. the largest of the trees was cut and left for us to use for firewood. (reuse, recycle!) ryan, against my advice, wanted to chop the wood himself. no one i tell can believe he chopped it all on his own. the result is truly amazing. i had no idea i'd married paul bunyan.

ryan poses with wil and lucy in front of the pile. at this point, about half of the logs had already been split!

a close-up of the pile...how professional!

in it's entirety....sort of. there are still a few small logs left but we're leaving those alone. ry's back couldn't take it!