Did you know the word lunatic has its origins in the word lunar? I don’t actually know if that’s true, but after tonight I wouldn’t question it. In case you missed it, a few weeks ago Yooper Stewart ran outside with chainsaw yelling about it being the right time in the lunar cycle to cut down the tree in the front yard. He only had time to hack off a couple of branches.

Lucky me, it’s a lunar cycle, so this month Yooper Stewart had the chance to finish what he started. I was on the phone interviewing a contact when I heard the WHACK! WHACK! WHACK! As soon as I hung up the phone, I ran outside. Lo and behold …

It wasn’t the tree chopping that concerned me. It’s the tree’s proximity to everything else. He didn’t seem to care.

He didn’t care. I didn’t have an option. He did, after all, have to beat the lunar cycle.

Chop, push. Chop, push.

Success!

I hope he doesn’t have any other cycles I don’t know about …