Now the Real Work Begins

We have been wanting to add a sun room on the back of our house but haven't had the time to take out a tree and bust up the patio slab in the way.


Finally got a great tree guy here in Rockport to take down the white ash that was lifting up the patio slab. It was a great tree but at the end of it's life span. Had some pretty dangerous limbs. He topped it off and left me an 8 foot stump so someone could bring in a cat and pull it over. I was looking at that stump for the last day or so thinking "Man I do not want to have to dig that thing out."

While I was at work on Friday, Marsha saw a backhoe working on the neighbor's property and asked him if he would come pull down that stump.

He came over, pulled and broke up the concrete patio, piling it up on the side then went to work on the stump. He had quite a time excavating around the tree. Lifted up his front end a few times I hear. Finally he wrestled that hunk of wood down and pushed it out of the way. I hate thinking about how I'm going to split that thing.


Marsha wants to recycle the concrete pieces for a flagstone patio at another location on the property and I would hate to see that beautiful piece of white ash go up in smoke in my pottery pit, so we are going to recycle. We are stacking up the pieces from the patio and I've hooked up with a local mesquite artist who has a saw mill. I'll have him slab that wood for me so it doesn't go to waste.


I have a sinking feeling all that was the easy part. Wish me luck