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Last Saturday I finally got the tree in my back yard removed.  It was pretty freakin huge.  And hollow.  Huge and Hollow.

Huge!

Hollow!

I’ve been trying to get this done for several weeks but it has been raining every Saturday since the first limb fell off and tore the power from my house.  It was quite an ordeal and all the wiring from my breaker box on out needed to be redone.  It was quite a learning experience.  I made several calls to different people associated with the power company to learn the current codes.

That Friday was full of suck

Aside from having to put up new piping, meter box, and wiring, I also had to put in a new grounding rod and redo some wiring in the breaker box.  It was kind of a pain but I know a lot more now about electricity.

I didn’t want to come home to this again so I called up some friends to cut this tree down.  It took several weeks for this to happen since it rained but June 6th the weather finally cooperated.

I was just here last month.... stupid kids.

I don’t know if you all noticed in the second picture that the power line was laying on the ground again.  That’s because the line was knocked down a second time.  Once again I had to call the power company to come out and reattach power to my house.  At least this time I didn’t have to do any repairs myself.  But now at least its finally done and I won’t have to worry about it again for hopefully quite some time.  You can check out all the pictures I took of this process by hopping over to my Picasa web album called Project Tree. Only 3 baby squirrels died in the removal of this tree so I am calling it a success.  Be warned that there is a picture of said baby squirrels in the mix.

I have plenty of other fun projects for my house that I am currently putting off.   I need to build new stairs to the basement, paint the kitchen and upstairs, maybe do some landscaping. I’m sure they will all give me a few more life lessons learned the hard way to share with you.  That’s all for now.  I’ll leave you with this picture of me pretending to be my old tree.

The green shirt was a nice touch.