While many people are accustomed to working outdoors in record high temperatures, the girls and I are not.
After tying up 2 bundles of sticks to take to the curb last night, I called it quits on the 3rd. Michael was kind enough to finish it off and carry it around front for me. It was after 7pm. The heat index was still over 100 degrees at that point.
At 11:30pm tonight, it is 85 degrees with a heat index of 98 degrees. At 2:30 this afternoon, the heat index was 114 degrees. At 8pm tonight, it was about 94 degrees with a heat index of 108 degrees.
Those numbers were the deciding factor in letting the remaining branches sit in our yard.
6/29 - EDITED TO ADD: We did finally finish the yard. I woke up early to a heat index of 78 which was also the actual temperature. Half an hour later when we finished, the temperature had risen 8 degrees and the heat index had risen 22 degrees. But, we managed to take care of all but the largest branches. Those would make good fireplace logs...
However, I did promise pictures. I really should have taken them on day 1 or 2, but these are from day 3 with about a quarter of the branches trimmed and placed in piles.
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| Piles of branches |
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| More piles of branches - the one in the center back was about waist high on me at that point |
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| Let the sun shine in! |
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