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Mere weeks before we moved into our house in 2006 a storm ripped through Madison causing a major branch of the silver maple to split and nose dive into the neighbors’ yard. This was somewhat worrisome. Was the tree sick? Would it die? Would it collapse on the house? Most importantly: how much was it going to cost us?

It seemed to be OK, but it was starting to touch the roof. I had heard that branches touching the roof creates an easy highway for animals and insects to invade your house. This was not a desirable scenario. We called in a tree specialist to look at the tree and give us an estimate of how much it would cost to prune it.

2 specialists tell us that the tree, unlike the Iraqi insurgency, really is in its last throes. The next branch to go happens to be the one that hangs over our new porch, Adam’s bedroom and our upstairs bathroom. Fortunately for us, our second guy’s bid came in at less than half of the 1st guy. So… our arborist gets our big screen tv, but at least we won’t get a tree in the house.

If anyone wants firewood, the tree will be coming down late next week. I can ask the guy to leave some if there is interest. Otherwise, it will go wherever chopped down trees go.