Over the past week or two we've noticed that "the fence neighbors" down below had
been parking their cars directly beneath our old dead oak tree. They have a 2 car garage and a driveway, but they seemed to prefer parking in the cul de sac, right under the large branches of our old dead oak tree. So I'm assuming that they were hoping to cash in and make us pay if a branch (or the tree) were to fall on their car(s). I think they're still upset about our fence..So, Sunday morning we decided it was time to trim the branches back. We threw a rope over one of the lowest branches and used our rock
climbing rope and harnesses to pull Er!c up the tree. Before we could trim any branches, our other neighbor (the good one) came down and asked if we wanted him to cut the tree down for us.We figured it would probably be a good idea to go ahead and cut it down. So after tying a
good sturdy rope around the tree Er!c came back down and pulled on the rope while the neighbor cut the tree. It came crashing down right on one of our biggest Dogwood trees, breaking it off at the stump. . :(But at least it didn't land on the neighbor's car.
That evening we decided to have a campfire supper around our little burn pile. We roasted vegetables in aluminum foil and then had hot dogs, followed by smores... it was a very enjoyable evening sitting around the fire with good company (with Jane11's parents and brother, Todd).
