TIMBER!!!

Almost 12 years ago, when we moved into this house, I planted 5 twigs in the corner of our backyard.  They were so tiny that for the first 2 years you couldn't even see them from what was then our patio.  Finally they started to grow....and they kept growing until they were the tallest things in our neighborhood!  They had become a beautiful backdrop for all my daisies and lillies.

But as we all come to realize, beauty doesn't last forever. Last summer they started to die.  We don't know why, but one by one their branches started turning brown and started falling down.  They went from being a thing of beauty to becoming the "eye sore" of the neighborhood! 

You probably won't believe this next part, but I swear it is true....we've had 2 different tree services knock at our door asking us if we wanted them to "cut down those dead trees" and also one neighbor asked if we wanted help cutting them down!

Well, after a couple recent storms completely knocked down a couple of them, today we decided to do something about it. Chainsaw in hand, we started cutting our once beautiful trees into logs. 

Wanting to look on the bright side, I stated that it was like we grew our own firewood, to which John replied "It took 12 years to grow and will only take a few hours to burn!"

I also got to add another power tool to the list of tools I have now used.