If a tree falls...

Tomorrow we are having 4 trees removed form our property. When we bought this house it had 18 trees in the backyard. The majority of them are pine trees and are over 2 stories tall. We can't have a sattelite dish because of the constant interference from swaying trees. A few years ago, Randy came home to find that one had fallen down. Luckily, it had gotten caught up in another tree's branches, so it didn't come crashing through our house like it should have. We had it cut down. Later on we had one more tree cut down but we left a 3 foot stump. Tomorrow, 2 of the perimeter trees that lean very far into our neighbors yard are coming down. One good hurricaine could send them crashing into our neighbors house, so they are history. We are removing a little sappling from the middle of the yard as well as a huge tree by our deck that we discovered is very diseased. So after tomorrow, we will have 12 left. Considering new constuction homes have NONE, we still feel lucky to have such a nice shaded back yard. I never realized how much goes into owning a home!! But we love ours!