Timber

The pine tree in the front year was diseased and needed to come down. So, when opportunity knocked, also known as some guy with a tree service looking for some afternoon work that stopped by our house, I decided to make a bet with him. Heads and I get my price, tails and he gets his (I'd done my homework and knew what others were going to charge). Needless to say, I won the bet and he cut down the tree (probably wouldn't be posting this if I had lost).






With Tree




Without Tree



A Little Landscaping

We had some gnarly shrubs when we moved in that we decided to pull out when we had the mini excavator.  The plan is to overhaul the landscaping at some point, but we just cleaned things out for now.  Here are a couple of pictures:



Before




After



The pile of bushes

Cleaning out the rock - before



Cleaning out the rock - after (almost)