How many STOOGES did it take???

So, just how many "men" does it take to get this:

Out of that:

Apparently, I drastically overestimated the skills of my dear husband.

It all began just before the kids were to go out trick-or-treatin' when Jeff threw the ball to Jason across the street.  Out jumped the tree and grabbed that sucker and would not let go.  So......... darn-it......... what do we do????  Let's throw up a basketball and try to knock it out.  Well, that got stuck up there, right next to that darn football.  So, let's try a soccer ball.  Nope that didn't work either, it got stuck right there with the rest of the balls.  Now we have a dilemma, 3 balls stuck up in this incredibly tall tree, and there is not one of them who is about to climb the poor thing to get them out.  I looked out the window and see Jason with his Little Giant stretched out at full length trying to knock it out while Jeff has a rope and is trying to shake the tree, no luck.  Jeff gets our our Bacci set and tries to throw those balls up there to knock out the others.  Nope, again a couple Bacci balls got stuck.  With a rope, a ladder, a super duper long pole, Jeff, Jason, Ryan, Tyson, Malcolm, Jared, Brother Hoppe, and countless spectators who were trick-or-treatin' managed to get out all the balls from the darn tree in just under an hour. Needless to say, I have a bunch of ingenious "men" that I can count on to get any job figured out.

Love ya Dear!!!