Our Tree

I'd like to take a little pause from the Colorado trip posts to give you an update on our big ol' tree!  The landscaping company is right at this moment in the middle of their 2nd day working on the tree, and right now they're working on grinding the stump down. They arrived yesterday morning around 8am, and by yesterday evening the majority of the tree was down but most of it was laying in huge logs on our lawn. And WOW did our front lawn get messed up from the crane they had to bring in! Thanks to some rain we'd had on Monday the ground was nice and soft, and the crane just sunk into our lawn and we now have huge divots and sunken areas. It kind of sucks, and it definitely bummed us out last night. Oh, and they also broke the wire for our invisible dog fence that was buried around the perimeter of our lawn. We talked with them this morning (they arrived again at 8am, so they're 4 hours in right now), and they said they're going to fix both of those things when they're finished today. They hadn't repaired anything last night because they still need to drive on our lawn a lot more today... so... Yikes. I'm really hoping it looks miraculously better when they're finished!  The great news though is that our house is completely unharmed (whew!) so it's all just landscaping/yard issues. Here are some pictures:

Here it is!  And they took all smaller branches and chunks of the trunk with them, so these are just all of the massive pieces that they still need to deal with. Oh and you can see Guinness and McGee in this one for some scale. 

Here's another view of the pile... And you can see some torn up grass just behind Guinness

Here you can see the sawdust all over the roof, and you can see the stump still there to the right of our house. 

Here's our messed up lawn... I don't know if you can tell how sunken in this whole area is. It dropped like 3 or 4 inches at least.. And if your eyesight is really great you can see the bright green wire that is our invisible dog fence... It snapped in a few different places. 

You can kinda see some more tracks all over the lawn... and that poor azalea bush to the right of our front window got pretty obliterated. 

And here's a "before" from last Fall (I'd posted a few in a previous post) just in case you want to be reminded of what the tree looked like: 

Turns out it was approximately 122 feet tall. Crazy. 

 We don't have to worry about that tree dropping limbs onto our house anymore though! Whew!