one of the key selling points of our house was the many trees surrounding our property. it's not a big lot, so the trees really help to block our neighbors. but with having so many trees (around 20) comes a ton of maintenance. and some of our trees are pretty old. so a couple weeks ago we had an arborist come out and examine our trees. today they came and cut down one tree on the side of the house, cleaned up some of the trees that were damaged in our first snow storm just after we moved here, and just trimmed the trees that needed it. it's so weird to have that one tree missing tho. it's funny that so many ppl are planting trees and we have to cut our's down! but it really was a danger to the structure of our house. and well, quite frankly, the last thing i need to worry about right now is a tree falling onto our guestroom or garage.