Tuesday, a brightening day

Today was an interesting day. I knew I had some errands to run, but first I wanted to print out some pictures. The person we've been visiting in the hospital wanted them. But of course my computer had to fight with me. So that had me running late. So I was in the shower, and I heard the fire siren blow, which isn't too unusual. But what was unusual was that someone was banging on my apartment door only about five minutes later. So of course I thought something was wrong, and I flew out of the shower, quickly dried and dressed. I checked the front door and no one was there, so I looked out back. There were a bunch of guys in the back yard, but it wasn't the fire company. So I figured it was just a coincidence, but I went out to see if it was them knocking.

They were from a tree removal agency. The landlord hired them to removed the four trees in the back yard. We've actually been asking him to do that for a while now. The other winter we had an ice storm, and limbs were breaking off of them. They were knocking to get us to move our cars. I moved my car and my motorcycle. Cathy was at work, so I didn't have to worry about hers. He couldn't get the guy in the downstairs apartment to answer his door though. And the landlord gave him the phone number, but he wouldn't answer his phone either. So they just started working, and hoped nothing dropped on his car.

Here is a picture of what the yard looked like from my back door before they started:
They were really quick about getting everything down. I ran the errands I had, and came back and they were about half way done. They got the last tree down around 1:30, then cleaned up and left. Here are some after pictures:
Unfortunately you can't see the saw dust and tree bits on the neighbor's car. :P They were just finishing up in that one, and here are two final pics:



As you can see it is a lot brighter out back, and that is why it was a brightening day. :)