Showing posts with label garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label garden. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Goodbye Oak tree

We had a beautiful old oak tree, but this summer after our New Zealand trip we came back and the leaves were brown.  We thought it was the drought that killed it, there are many many dead trees around the Houston area.  We got it cut down last week.  Sad to see it come down, even though we have more trees, that old one was special.  Chris counted the rings (see picture below).



the tree guy climbing the tree, it had a huge trunk and then branched off into two bigger sections



it had already started shedding it's branches and bark, with the help of many woodpeckers and squirrels

 the bare branches

not an easy job

 afterwards.....  Chris has a friend who wants this for firewood


the tree guy said the tree actually died from a fungus, not the drought as we thought











Sunday, May 3, 2009

More projects

swingset before and after pictures


































pond before





















pond "after" - Chris got a new pump and got it all in working order

Before and afters

playhouse "before"

































































and after a fresh coat of paint - it looks white but it is Chatham green from Home depot. We need to get some more sand for the sandbox under it, but I think it looks so much better!