If only we had a Fire Place

The picture above is of the yard before the tree was cut down.

The picture below is of our good family friend Pete cutting down the tree.

According to our backyard neighbor when they built our house the builders just left pre-existing trees. In most cases that'd be quite nice, since the trees would be more mature. But...in our case it's not so nice, since the trees they kept were scraggly and drop sticks all over the yard.

Over time several of the trees have died and we were afraid of having some of the larger branches fall on the house. So, we called up "Stehouwer tree removal and Company" and tackled our 2nd tree removal since owning the house.

Unfortunately we have 2 more trees to take down this Spring... on the bright side, we'll have less leaves and sticks to rake in the fall next year...