the ribbon cutting ceremony

if you haven't noticed the huge orange eye sore at the front of our house than you are blind. There has been an orange fence around the famous tree for the last 3 months and we were finally able to take it down. We wanted it to be a big ribbon cutting ceremony and take pictures and toast with martinelli's, but things happened rather quickly that we didn't get a choice.


We have been wanted to put mulch down around the tree and the company that I had contacted said they could only deliver 100 yards,,,, which is a lot. But the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, at 7:00 AM they called and said they had 10 yards they wanted to dump and they would be here in 30 minutes... 7:00 AM what?? So I started moving quickly for cutting down the orange fence and then putting all of the weeds and limbs in garbage bags. I did it just in time and now we have mulch around the tree. Also that same day, we finally got our certificate of Occupancy. With many failed inspections and living in the house illegally for 2 weeks, we finally passed and I really wanted to burn the permits, for they are no longer in need. Later that night David and I did toast with martinellis and were so grateful that the house was finally approved and that the fence was down.




Here are some pics of the final fence down.