has begun.  My husband, step-son and our neighbor/tree guy came yesterday and took down our cottonwoods.  Here is our tree guy climbing one of the trees.

Here is the battlefield afterward AKA our backyard.

Here is the new view looking into the donkey pen.

Here is the largest pile in the middle of the pen.

Here is the back of the donkey pen,

and here is the front of the pen.

We have a lot of work ahead of us clearing up the giant mess.  It will be a while before the donkeys have their pen back.  Plus there still is debris from the barn restoration that needs cleaning up.

But we do have cute goats to make us smile through all the work that lays ahead of us.