Todays surprise.

     This morning I went over to the project house to do a little painting. I was going to go in the afternoon as we were supposed to get a lot snow in the morning, but I woke to just a trace of snow on the ground, so thought I better go before it really started snowing. When I pulled into the driveway I noticed a set of tire tracks in the snow in the driveway. That got me wondering who had been there. I also noticed a lot of branches and pieces of bark around the yard and on the roof. I walked around the house and discovered that one of neighbors trees had broken off at about the level of our roof, I also noticed the neighbors truck was full of tree limbs and branches. Well might not be the sharpest tool in the shed, but I figured out who was in the driveway.

       Michelle and I have been discussing these trees since the first day we started the project. The first concern was how close they were to the house, the second concern is that all the trees are dying, the third concern was that the neighbor would claim that they were are trees. The one other problem we had was these neighbors are not the most friendly people I have ever come across. We have been working there for nine months and we have been pretty much ignored. We knew the trees would have to be discussed we just didn't want to start a war over them. Well that all changed when we discovered that the tree had landed on the roof. With the neighbor over cleaning up everything pretty much let us know he owned the trees.
       I went ahead with my painting and kept Michelle updated on what was going on through text messages and pictures on my phone. She was getting pretty worried and madder by the minute and ended up coming home from work early. She held the ladder as I ended up going on the roof to check for damage. There was no real damage to the roof, one gutter was dented a bit and there was a gash in one of the posts on the front deck. We can fix the gutter and the post,  the problem is the 4 other trees. We went over to the neighbors house and knocked on the door, no one was home. Left a note with our names and phone numbers and that we needed to talk about the trees. To make a pretty long story shorter he has agreed to have someone come out and top out the trees. It looks like it is going to turn out fine.