How To Fence A Field

 Step one: Convince neighbor to initiate scheme and put him in charge.

Step two: Be convinced by said neighbor to help.

Step three: Be unexpectedly woken up by said neighbor at 6 am and head out to pretend to be lumberjacks.

 That's his "taking pictures throws off my tree cutting groove" face.

 Timber!

 "See?! I wanted the tree to fall to the left, but since you were taking pictures, it fell to the right."

He also claimed that pictures threw off his balance when he's walking along the trunks of the trees chainsawing... at 5+ feet in the air.

 Having 12 wheels makes everything go faster.

So, for our non-farm-literate friends, here's the main idea:
Daniel is going to raise cows on our land. To do this, we have to have a fence. To fence, you have to run barbed wire along cedar posts that are put into the ground. To put cedar posts in the ground, you have to cut them. To cut them, you have to fell the trees, slice off the branches, and cut the trunks into 8 ft, 2in sections. This makes a mess, so you have to use the tractor to push the leftover branches into nooks in the woods. Now you have long posts. You have to get them from the woods to the pasture, so you get Emma, Caroline, and Olivia to carry the posts to the truck, drive to the field, and unload them to their carefully plotted spots. (ten Olivia-trying-to-have-the-same-stride-as-Daniel paces apart) Tractor can also be used to knock trees down that get stuck on other trees.

 Emma and Caroline did most of the log-unloading, since it was faster for me to just stay in the truck to drive from spot to spot. They are amazingly strong and have such great spirits.

"I get by with a little help from my friends"

 Strategically placing the post next to the little orange flag.

 Freshly cut trees are nothing but sap. 

 After the 17th post or so, we got kinda bored. 

 The cedar is SO pretty. Especially the pink sawdust it leaves. :)

 Emma is just so fun to take pictures of because 1) she doesn't mind and 2) she's pretty and 3) she has such a cheerful outlook on life.

...but she also has an "inner warrior". She was the best of us three girls at marking the 8'2" spot on the trees with this hatchet and she managed to break the hatchet with a log... not on a log, but with a log... while riding in the back of a truck. This is a sign of an inner warrior, no?

We have so much fun working hard.