Timber!

Excitement happened around our house two weeks ago. My husband got an idea from the locals to dry out a tree before cutting it down, like this:

The idea is to leave it standing for a couple of weeks and then chop it down and cut it into firewood. He did this to two trees in the backyard, a hard wood tree (pictured above) and a masuku (sapote) tree, the was growing close to a tall papaya tree.

One day after the maintenance crew left our house, the children and I were standing in the front yard (thankfully) when suddenly we heard, "Creak, crack, BOOM, CRASH!" Jedidiah and I looked at each other, not sure what had just happened. Cautiously we went through the house to view the backyard, and there we saw it.

Timber!

The masuku tree had toppled, taking the papaya tree up by the roots.

The roots of the papaya, underneath the trunk of the masuku tree.

Really, it was quite exciting.

Jedidiah immediately began clean up.

But playing on it was more fun!