Yesterday, trees.
I wasn't home to greet them, but for the first time since I put it in, I was able to use the Ring camera to talk with someone on the porch through my phone. Pretty slick.
We'd originally scheduled them to be here a few weeks ago, but they kept getting delayed, which happens.
It was fun, the whole day, to check on progress via the camera.
When I took this screenshot, I thought I saw two dangling legs. But in closeup, he's perched on that branch. Still, he got the short straw that day. And there's no way a fatty like me could have done that, which is why we hired someone to give the birch a trim in the first place.
There we see progress on the good/bad part of the job: Removing a really big pine tree from the front corner of the yard. It's a beautiful tree, but it's rather sappy and drips a lot -- and I mean a lot -- of sap on everything nearby. As it hung partly over the neighbors' driveway, I felt bad because I knew their cars were getting dripped on. So it had to go. I didn't like the idea of killing a living thing, but it was put in a bad place when it was planted. Don't plant drippy trees over sidewalks or neighbors' driveways.
The end result (photos I took when I got home at the end of the day):
Birch tree looks a lot happier. A few years ago we had an early snow and it lost a bunch of branches at the crown from the weight.
And the pine is a pile of logs. A much smaller pile than I was anticipating. We'll have to figure out what to do with this corner now. I do actually have a nice gravel spot there under the treee, but it's been buried over the years under sap and pine needles. I'll have to go out there and clean things up. With turpentine . . .
And they extracted some ancient Christmas lights that a previous homeowner had installed therein:
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