Once the sunroom and deck were demolished, we moved on to cutting down trees. At first I felt terribly guilty about killing trees to make more room for the addition, but as luck would have it, our timing was excellent. One of the trees was in bad shape, completely hollow inside. It probably would not have remained upright much longer. And the other tree would have been taken by the emerald ash borer within the next couple years, so I'd like to think we spared it a slow, painful death.
To save money, we recruited a friend who worked for a professional tree service several years back. In one day, he took down both trees. We're so grateful to Jeff for his hard work, but I'm convinced that Mike was a little disappointed at having to keep both feet firmly planted on the ground.
The following day, Henry came over, armed with his wood splitter and John Deere Gator, and Jeff came back as well to help us organize the wood.
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