As I mentioned in the last entry, we have three tireless teenage boys cutting the trees down between us and our view. These trees all stood behind the barn that used to be here, and since the house was pointed in a slightly different direction, they didn’t really block our view before. Now, however, they were entirely in the way and, especially in Michael’s opinion, needed to be gone.
Unfortunately, I didn’t think to take pictures of the view (lack thereof) before all the cutting started, but here’s what things looked like from the deck earlier this week:
And here’s what it looks like right now:
And here’s some of next winter’s firewood: