Redneck Tic Tac Toe

Simply put, it's a fantastic fit! Located near the northwest corner of our six-acre property you can see it jut above the grass around it. 

The large, round stump is all that's left from what was perhaps the tallest tree on our place. It was about 20 yards from our home and a mere six or seven paces from the pump house. We had it and eight other extremely tall trees towering above our house removed during a 2020 logging operation that gave our home quality defensible space and thinned our forest of about 350 of 1,000 trees.

Down comes the tall ponderosa

Lori came up with the idea to transform the stump into a fun, kid-friendly outdoor game, so I asked one of the loggers if he could reduce it to a nice, clean cut parallel with the ground. And he obliged thanks to great skill and an the extremely long arm on his chain saw.

From there, it was my turn to implement Lori's vision. I grabbed a short 2x4, my circular saw and made four shallow cuts across the top of it in opposite directions. A little black paint highlighted those cuts. From there, I gathered five rocks and five pine cones from the property and the result was, well, let's call it redneck tic tac toe. 

Rocks vs. cones

Let's play!