A couple weeks ago I was removing the Christmas lights. Yes I understand Christmas was three months ago. But when temperatures are as low as they were in January, Christmas lights just don’t get taken down. We recently had a warm week, so I climbed on the roof and got to work. In this process I noticed how many pine needled and cones were sitting in the gutters, so of course I then start cleaning the gutters. I then notice large branches of the tree sweeping our roof, causing it to wear down prematurely. First thing I do upon getting off the roof is call someone to quote out trimming our tree. The trimming of a tree is an expensive service.  But something has to be done. As I was calling trimming services, it only made sense to also have it quoted to be completely removed, even though we did that once before and it was so expensive.

Sometimes a failing economy can work to your advantage, especially in certain service industries.  Tree removal being one of those. We could pay a hundred dollars more than the trimming service and have the tree completely removed. With how much we hated the tree, it was a no brainer! Within 5 days we had a whole crew working on our front yard cutting branches, mulching branches, grinding the stump. And although I’m ecstatic to have the ugly tree out of our front yard- the tree had so much character. 50 years of character in fact. Branches had been cut off through the years making it a polka dot trunk. I’m sure some of the old people in our neighborhood were distraught about losing the neighborhood tree, but I won’t lose any sleep over it! I’ll have to post some after pictures soon.