Beetle Attack!

So I had a tree in my front yard…  emphasis on the word “had”.

Seems that this little beetle and his (or her) friends decided they wanted to attack it.  In fact, it was an Emerald Ash Borer Beetle or EAB for short.

Ugly little thing ain’t it?

Well, it got hungry and attacked my Ash tree and kilt it.  It dun dead.  So I had to chop it down.  *Sniff Sniff*  Just like my good ‘ol friend Washington.  You know… George Washington… who had to chop down his cherry tree.  Well ok, maybe he’s not my friend.  He’s old though.  Well, he would be if he were alive.  Regardless, I had to chop my tree down.  Or rather trees.  2 of them!

And you know what I got for all that hard work?  Yup, you guessed it.  2 Tree stumps.  Stumps that could be there for years and years.

Now I have a coupla choices here.  I could work my behind off and dig all around the stumps, sort through all the roots, and then lift and pull and strain until I get the stump and root ball out of the ground.  Of course that would take hours upon hours of hard labor for each stump and I’d probably pull a few muscles.  I could pay hundreds of dollars for a company to come and bring their stump grinder and grind the whole thing up into woodchips.  I could even rent my own stump remover and do all the work myself, kinda combining options 1 and 2.  Or I can simply purchase a stump remover for a few bucks and let time do the rest.

 

Well, guess which one I’m going to choose?  Yup, the good ‘ol stump remover.  Drill a few holes in the stump, pour in the stump remove

r, wait, and the stump slowly decays over time.  Pretty cool stuff!  Hey, don’t let an lil’ ol’ EAB get you down.  Once the stumps are gone, I’ll have a nice wide open yard that I can play catch in.  There’s always a silver lining isn’t there?