gullyfoyle

I sympathize, but having a 12 by 8 feet rootball (and associated hole) a few feet from the back door is too much, and the downed logs -- there's also a large pine down too, you can see the snag sticking up -- split the yard in half. Our property abuts a lake and we don't have enough room between the yard and the lake to keep the logs. There's a chance we could be selling in a few years, and we'd have to be incredibly lucky to find a buyer who'd consider the downed trees and rootball in a positive light. There's a second good-sized broken pine off to the left that I do plan to leave in place beside the lake. I have a couple of brush piles for smaller limbs and yard cuttings and those piles do attract wildlife.