FINALMENTE!

At long last the work on the park behind our house has bugun! On Thursday we were awakend by the CLUNK of sledgehammers against the stone wall by our garage. The wall was tumbling down!

No work was done on Friday or Saturday, maybe because it was rainy. Whatever the reasons, this morning we awoke to the sound of chain saws. This truck, equipped with a cherry picker, was parked in front of our garage. The guy in the cherry picker
was cutting the trees, starting at the top, then everything was being dumped on the street.

Our neighbor Armando donned his "lab coat", the jacket of choice for many Italian men when they're working outside or in the garage. He also added this scythe, I guess to chop off stray branches from the larger logs.


After several of the larger trees had been taken down, the smaller trees and assorted overgrown bushes were cut and piled up. This truck arrived, equippped with a huge claw and a large bed to hold all the debris.

And naturally the site was a magnet for all our neighbors

I'm always amazed when I see these brooms....I feel as if the middle ages aren't completely forgotten

And now we have this little shovel that just drove right up into the park for more excavating...