A little different now

Yes, it does look a bit different in our back yard.

Our neighbors sawed up the trees and are splitting the rounds for firewood. With the heavy top gone, the tree base and roots simply fell back into place in a dramatic thump of splattering mud and air pressure. The guy next door quickly filled in the damaged fence, but not before all the boughs were stacked into huge piles in our yard. We've gotten a start on eliminating them - thanks to a community brush pile station - but obviously have a lot to do yet! Surprisingly, the Adirondack chairs never moved through the whole ordeal, although they no longer have the most scenic of places to reside.

It's all very sad.

And now it is snowing. It is likely to be really cold for the rest of the week - but Saturday is THE day and we need to get our brush removal done.

And then we'll reward ourselves with a couple of days in Portland to visit with Todd, who will be there for a business meeting next week.

The Northwest Flower and Garden Show is coming up next month - and we'll be looking for a landscape designer there, so we can start over. And believe me, this will be needed because all the neighbors think we just need to hire a 'chain saw artist' to carve our tree trunk stumps into bears. We have a slightly different vision for our 'different' back yard.