I thought I'd start off the week with a crash. Pun intended. You'll see.
This is what the back of our house looked like when we bought it:
It was covered in greenery (which I kind of liked - oooh! a jungle!) and algae caused by the side of the house always staying damp, never seeing sunlight, because of this huge tree:
Jeremy has been itching to take this tree out since literally the first day we saw the house. He thought it was too big and took up too much of the front portion of the back yard. Plus, our bedroom and the office never receive any natural light from this side of the house because of the tree - which is not cool for a natural light freak like me.
While I thought the tree was nice because I like all trees, I could see his point. Plus, we have PLENTY of other trees in the yard, so it's not like it'd be totally barren once it was gone.
Last Wednesday, J and his dad got to work on removing part of the tree, which shared one large stump but was actually two trees. By the time they were done, one tree was left... the tree that was much closer to the house and was actually leaning toward the house. Scary for me.
They decided to tackle the second tree Thursday, so I got out the video camera because I wanted to document them either crushing our house with the tree as they cut it down or to document them successfully cutting it down. Watch the video to determine the result. (Sorry I couldn't make it bigger - it's my first time uploading my own video.
And by the way, there is actually a cable tied around the tree and attached to the back of the little green truck, which is being driven by J away from the house in an attempt to get the tree to fall away from the house. J's dad is manning the chainsaw, and J's brother-in-law is instructing J from the bridge. So nerve-wracking to watch!
At about 1:04, you can see the tree start to sway. Around 1:23, you hear me sarcastically say "Great" because I'm envisioning sleeping with a tree that night in our bed in the master bedroom that's about to be crushed.
This is what our backyard looks like now:
There was tons of ivy all around the stump, so J spent the majority of Saturday afternoon cutting and pulling all of that out. I think he took about seven full trash cans of yard waste to our compost pile and then filled up the back of his work truck with all of the vines. I helped for about forty five minutes and was sore for the rest of the weekend.
He uncovered these, too, as he was cleaning the area under the tree:
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