Thank you as always to the great and wise @mariabustillos.com for her sharp eye

Thanks very much. It had rained a little earlier and that gave a nice shine to everything.

Holy cow. Premium shot here

Thanks man. The guy in the bucket was doing a little show with the whole thing by the end of it, they were having a great time.

When he had to cut the trunk itself down the guy was doing this like medieval infantry kind of combat to it with the chainsaw and shoving it with his other arm, and during the minute of drama watching it slowly snap apart the kids were lined against the playground fence shouting cut! the! tree!

Great thread here

Backup catcher Joey Bart tells the sideline reporter "this says a lot about our guys" and I wonder if we just might find a way out of all this.

"Okay, we have a significant numerical advantage on the left flank. What we want to do is attack that flank, turn it, and roll the Confederates on back to Richmond. But McClellan doesn't see that clearly. He hesitates. And now Lincoln's gotta think about 'can I trust my commanding general here?'"