TREES

Reilly,Charlee and Brenden playing with the (blurry) Lizard.

A hitch-hiker from working on the trees.
Brenden and his little hitch-hiker buddy.


A few months ago we had to cut down one tree on the east side of our house because it was so diseased and the middle was hallow, but we were like no big deal we still have this other tree to shade the front of the house, but on Friday evening we were out front and I just put my hand on this other tree and it moved. So after calling Brenden over to look at it and having it move several feet we decided it was enough of a hazard to take it out immediately. All he had to do was put a chain around it and it fell over (scary), we dragged it to the lot next door to be taken care of later. It was Friday night and it was now dark, and we had family coming over soon (always love having Lauri, Jack and baby Parker stay with us). Then Saturday morning we had tennis for the children and my cousins funeral (we will miss you Gayle) and then we spent the remainder of the day visiting with family and friends. After church on Sunday, Brenden and the kids went outside and cut the tree apart to put in the back of the truck. Brenden said it was mainly hollow too. I guess for a tree to have leaves, it only needs the bark intact. So now we are checking the rest of the trees, because we have ones that are bigger than our house. Hopefully we won't lose anymore of our huge shade trees.