Toni was awakened Saturday morning by a cracking of wood,and found that the second tree was peeking in the kitchen window. John was outside spotting while Ray brought it down.

The back yard, mostly cleared of the first tree, looking much more open.

Surprisingly, the carrots are coming back to life

This is the grading work that the contractor did before putting down the paving stones for the patio. After this came a layer of sand, followed by the stones themselves.

The hewn remnants of our second tree. Some of these logs were quite large and hefty.

This is the grading work that the contractor did before putting down the paving stones for the patio. After this came a layer of sand, followed by the stones themselves.

Random branches and leaves left behind as the first tree was being cleared away. This tree was a lot bigger than we had realized!

The old patio concrete is all broken up but not yet carted away.

Sky, newly visible from our back yard, now that the first tree has been brought down. This box elder was huge and really was dominating the entire yard.

Mmmmmm.....

here we are, doing a little more "back yard research".

The middle shoot is going to be massive, already well past 8ft.

Looking back towards the house. I removed the two stumps this weekend.

"This will all be gone by the end of the week!" (I just have to remember that!)

Mavis keeps watch over the growing rubble pile in the backyard....

This is a temporary retaining wall I used to reshape the lawn.

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