9.16.2009

Oh Cottonwood Tree.....

how lovely are your branches....until they plummet to the ground, land on some unsuspecting guest's head and cause brain damage and a pending law suit. Thus why we are in tears this afternoon after the second "tree man" as dude calls them, confirmed that our source of shade and greenery in the backyard needs to come down. All the way down. And it's not free. Not even close to being free. Anyone want to join us on a random Saturday to climb the beast and start hacking away? If only we could.

This is the saddest "over $1000" that we have ever spent. But given the fact that the trunk of our tree friend is hallow 5 feet up and 3 feet across, we really can't let it exist in the hopes that it'll stay upright much longer. Maybe we should have taken a clue when a five foot branch fell on my dad's head this summer? Sorry about that Dad. It won't happen again.


It holds our tree swings, provides shade for the sand box and dude's room...so very sad.

Hallow. Completely hallow. They weren't cool with my suggestion of filling it with concrete.


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