(continued from the previous four posts) Rather than leave our tree to die a long slow death, we decided to have it taken out. In less than...

(continued from three earlier posts) In the spring of 2008 the melting snow revealed the ruins left behind by the plumbing repair. Using whe...

(This post is the third in a series of five. The following will mean more if you read the two earlier posts.) It was the second weekend in...