So three fourths of our tree in the front yard fell down a few weeks ago. In addition to previous branches that fell and other branches we've pruned off other trees and bushes we were gathering a pretty good pile on the side of our house. So we asked the Young Men from our ward to help us get rid of the pile. When they got here they got done with that so fast that they asked if they could move the rocks out of our little island. SURE!!
They kept asking if they wanted them to take down the tree. Derek wasn't sure. But after they moved all the rocks to around the air conditioning unit a couple of the boys said that the tree would probably fall down if they got into it. Derek decided to let them try...and down it came.
Then the next trick was getting the stump out. There were a lot of trucks there so they hooked it up and got to work the first truck couldn't budge it.
The second truck broke the rope three times and didn't get it out
Ultimately it took a tractor and a lot of chain sawing of roots to get it out.
Soo glad we had help
Hyrum went to bed before it was all said and done ( he did get to see the tractor ) but has been so sad that the tree is gone. We would always go sit under the tree to eat Popsicles. He keeps saying "Daddy broke the tree! We got to borrow a new tree, that is beautiful and has lots of colors." I told him that Daddy took the tree to the green dump and that it was goinig to be made into compost to help other plants but he was still sad. We went to visit the tree at the green dump and showed him the compost pile. Then a week later we were passing the road to the green dump and he wanted to go to see the tree. I told him that we didn't need to see the tree every time we passed. He said "But momma it's going to rain tonight!" I assured him that the tree was going to be ok and that it had been in the rain before. Maybe we're reading to many books about personified trees. I guess it's good that we want to put the tree in in the fall. It will have lots of beautiful colors.
In the meantime it sure looks empty.
1 comments:
Pam said...
It goes to show you even small trees can have huge roots. It does look so different in the front of your house. It was great to have all that help to move everything. I am so happy you live near good people. :)