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This stuff is really pretty great and I may even like it better than the classic scalloped potatoes!.

I said I would mull all these things over for a few days, and I would look at the cover design they would show me too and see if I felt any better about that title that I had said I hated earlier.So they sent the cover design over, and some examples of how the pages of the book might look in that black and white, no-photo format, and I got to mulling..

I guess they got to mulling a little bit as well, and so they asked me to send over about 20 examples of the kinds of photos I would put in the book if we went the photo route.At some point in our conversations I had just offered to do the darn photos myself if that would make it easier for everyone.I never want to cause any problems, so I was really just trying to sound helpful, but nevertheless, they asked to see 20 photos to take a look at my photography and see if they could have me do the photos myself.. After our few days of pondering, I realized that these people were the experts and they probably knew what they were talking about when it came to book formats.

I also realized that my book would probably actually stand up to being in just black and white because it.pretty entertaining, if I do say so myself.

So I wrote to them to tell them that I was fine to go ahead with the no photos thing, and maybe if we could just do a few sparse illustrations here and there as visual cues for flipping, that would be perfect.

And then I didn’t hear from them for three weeks, so I just assumed that was what we would do..It was quite the impressive operation though!.

They started out by using this super-long chainsaw-on-a-stick thing to remove all of the smaller lower branches.. Then, we actually had to  have our power line to the house disconnected so that all the machinery could be moved in closer to the tree..Since Chris was home that day to watch the spectacle, we decided to also paint our kitchen cabinets.

And of course the power was out, so we painted our cabinets basically in the dark because, as you can see, it was a pretty cloudy day.It was also cold and windy so we had to do our work inside.