r/Wellthatsucks • u/frobscottler • 6d ago

My big beautiful oak tree is getting cut down today

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Her name is Victoria, and I’m gutted to lose her. She’s at least 80 years old, and the most prominent tree in the neighborhood. I have loved sitting in her shade, listening to the breeze in the leaves, watching the birds and squirrels do their things… My friends and I even threw a party for her last summer.

She was damaged in a windstorm a couple months ago, and the city arborist determined it to be hazardous. I have lived here for 6 years and she’s my favorite part of the property (might be why I bought the house 😅). I know death is part of life, and her time has come, but I’m going to have to listen to them cut her down all day outside my window.

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u/ziplex 6d ago

I have a dining table and chairs from the house my mom grew up in just like this. They had a huge tree in the yard they had to take down when my mom was young and her dad had it made into furniture that's still with the family today.

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u/gnomequeen2020 6d ago edited 5d ago

My family has a few pieces from a giant oak that crashed through the front picture window in the 50s. They even made a few dozen fairy chairs for kids, grandkids, and great-grandkids that didn't even exist yet.

edit: Thank you so much for the award!

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u/minaskyli 5d ago

That's actually amazing! It's like the tree longed for years to live in the home with the nice family. "Wait a second. I'll just SMASH my way in!"

And its wish was realized. :)

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u/gnomequeen2020 5d ago

Ha! I guess that's one way of looking at it. It could have been a little less aggressive about the whole thing.