The day has come. We knew it would happen. Stuff happens, a lot. A lot of stuff happens. Particularly with three kids and a dog... and it accumulates. Before you know it there is stuff in the attic, stuff in the basement, then the garage and then one day you simply have no more room and you either move or add on. We knew this was coming when we bought the house - we bought it more for the land than the house and knew we would be adding on...one day... in the future...when we needed to.

That time has arrived.

This was the largest tree on our property a huge white pine

It wasn't my favorite tree anyway, but I love this picture of Dick Stoner up in the tree after he toppled it

It broke our hearts, however, to take down this Maple tree but we couldn't figure out how to keep it. Lisa did a small Feng Shui ceremony and promised plant more.

Our garage: too small for both of our cars, had carpenter ants throughout, and so many holes in the roof it literally rained inside

Our barn: I called it the bird house because there were at least 3 different nests and you almost had to cover your ears when you went in because the chirping was so loud

Since it was coming down anyway, we did what comes naturally to all boys...

I loved our lilac bushes...

I really wanted to play on the excavator but the contractor wouldn't let me...probably a smart move on his part

This image evoked such a sadness given the dreary weather and the posture of the kids. Funny thing was no one was sorry to see it go. FYI those are not all my kids....

That's just so cool....

and there you have it... like it never existed, it took a day and a half. Now we have to dig a really, really big hole.