Crepe Murder!

We've always hated the crepe myrtle in our front yard. It was too close to the house, blocked the window and was in a poor place for the plant's health. We had a warm day on the weekend so Claire and I got after it and yanked that sucker out. We gave about a shovel's width radius around the crepe myrtle. We down a then channel about a shovel deep.





 I used one of my many axes to chop through the roots we hit. Once we had dug a nice channel about 12+ inches down we tied it up to Claire's Car and with a little shoving from me we toppled the beast. Now the house looks even better from the street. Next Christmas the tree will really shine from the front yard.