I realize now in retrospect, that we don't have a great close up shot of the front yard of our house...but I think that's because of the tree that this post is about. The tree was one of the parts of the house that Daddy loved the most. Our house faces south and it was nice and big and provided a lot of shade. Right after we bought the house, Daddy and Mommy were outside talking about how they needed to trim the tree away from the house when our awesome next door neighbor leaned over the fence with dark words. He said "I hate to to be the one to tell you this, but you're going to have to take the tree down. There used to be a lot of these willows around and this is one of the last because they get a disease and start dripping sap that stinks everywhere and it essentially is dying." Oh no! Well we went through most of the summer with no "sap" in sight. Mommy was hoping we had a few more years in the tree.
Boy, were we wrong.
Starting in August, our front walk started to get little speckles of this sap like substance. It wasn't overly sticky and certainly not stinky so we thought we could handle it. Yeah. Until our front walk way was SWIMMING in it and Mommy started to feel like she could smell it clear out at the end of the circle. Daddy made a phone call to a tree removal company, they came over on Tuesday and did an estimate. Mommy liked what she heard. Mommy went to run some errands on Wednesday, they were pulling in to start removal, she came home later and it was GONE. Stump and all. The neighbors congregated outside the house that night and just talked about how sudden it was and how the tree had probably been there for 12 years but that it needed to go. So this is what our house looks like now.
Mommy and Daddy hear that fall is the best time to plant so hopefully we'll be replacing it soon but they'll be doing some research into what kind of trees can get the "Slime" as the tree guys called it. (Pretty accurate too!)
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