The Beast is Gone...

We used to have this big, beautiful oak tree in our back yard. Notice the past tense word "used". Today the massive beast came down. We've been in our house about three and a half months and since day one, the hubs has had this grand idea to have the tree taken down. He's had a bazillion people come and give estimates. He finally settled on one and today was the day the tree came down. (He was afraid that there would be major damage for a number of reasons if the tree stayed up.) Anyhoo, the guy that we went with had originally come over early one morning and gave this ridiculously inexpensive quote. It was on paper, etc. So, when he comes by today he stated he must have been asleep the first time or the tree must have grown an awful lot in two weeks. Well, he did the tree anyway as he was being honest. It's nice to know there are still some honest business people in the world as he could have easily declined to do the job. Let me tell you, the backyard is a mess! Lots of dust, dirt and holes. When it fell it crushed a nice fruit bush, too. Obviously I wasn't too thrilled about the whole situation, but it will hopefully keep the house from being damaged in the long run. And do you know that the hubs actually asked me to help him clean the rest up??? Ha! There is one helacious oak tree laying in my backyard along with two good sized holes. He'll be having fun cleaning up that bad-boy on his own...but being the sucker I am, I'm sure I'll end up helping out in the long run....