Several weeks ago we decided it was the day to chop down a huge spruce tree in our backyard. We've been talking about it for a while now and we finally did it! It was a nice tree but was growing way too close to our house and we want to redo our patio and the tree was in the way. Zachary and Conrad are hiding out underneath the tree waiting for Grandpa Tycholaz to arrive to help.
The house before......
......And the house after!
Dad T. (or Grandpa T.) cutting the tree so it will fall exactly where we want it to.
And there she goes.........Zachary still talks about the tree that fell down! He thought this was all very exciting! It was kind of cool to watch and the guys put it where they wanted it to fall which I was relieved about.
Nice, clean cut! Man, that tree was SO big!
The supervisors, Zachary and Juliette, giving the guys a thumbs up for a job well done. Not to worry, they were watching safely from the sidelines the entire time. (even though Zach wanted to be in the middle of the action very badly)
That was the pile of branches we had after they had all been trimmed off! Probably close to 5 feet high! It smelled like Christmas in our backyard. Mmmmmm, smelled so good!
Conrad's work truck loaded up for trip #1 to the dump. There were so many branches that he had to make 2 trips and the back of the truck was this full both times.
I do miss the tree a little bit, but I am loving the light that comes into our house now! It is also nice to have more space in our yard for Zachary to play in. Now for the patio improvements..... A little at a time I guess. Needless to say, our yard is a work in progress. But it's exciting to me to see the little steps being taken to turning it into a place we want to spend time in.
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