Awesome.

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A call and a deal.  A neighbor visited, to see about the saw.  I wasn't sure what all needed to happen.  Cleaning, oil... what kind, where, or such.  Yeah, well, not that hard at all.  What I thought would need lab and lab coat work just needed a minor bit of rag work.  Showed me this and that, worked this over, and... bam.  She lit like a 4th sparkler, without the sparkles thankfully.  Then I asked if he would watch as I cut limbs... just in case.  I cut, cut, cut some more, moved the ladder, cut, cut, moved...  I got a lot down, but not close to what I needed.  So, he asked if I wished that he help?  Well, yes.  And so he did.  It is good enough, absolutely for sure.  I may look it over in a day or two, and I might go back up if I think so.  But, really, quite good.  I should be able to walk under the branches without ducking.  I will see about setting up a camp under there.  Though I am not sure about the hammock.

After which I visited.  Then, talked as his wife and their new little one were set to arrive shortly.  I was so tired I might have seemed a bit dull.  Even what I had done with the tree and chainsaw had quite tuckered me out.  Anyway, it was a marvel to see such a young one again.  And the Mrs. really looks good.  She has done well after delivery.  It sounds as if she learned some things and is still learning.  I still think it's wonderful, and as she said, a miracle.  These things, in some odd way, are in God's hands.  We have made choices that set us apart a bit, and so can and do fall prey.  But when it works, even when it doesn't exactly, often there is another chance.  Such tiny noses, feet, and hands.

So, it does end up a major victory today, on many fronts.  I am pretty done in for it.  Well worth it.  Though, tomorrow, I... I have no idea.  I was invited to a ceremony for their girl, and would love to have gone.  While I said maybe, my back, energy, head, neck, and legs were... I think they were openly threatening me.  Not with extra pain, just with making a fool, again, out of me.  It took many years to learn to say no, or even maybe.  But as unfair as it is to me, in what I have missed, it is more unfair to those I give my word and do not keep it.  Better a distant friend than a bitter one.  I can't keep some words, so I no longer give them.

All good.  Just a touch of music then on to bed.  Good night.