The title says it all, so nothing more is needed, except that I also cut down the 100 foot, 140 year old dead fir tree, and then went out and paid cash for a brand new, larger stump grinder. What more could an “elderly” (ha! ha!) arborist want for his birthday? Cheers!

Who says that reindeer can’t clean gutters while they’re going from rooftop to rooftop on Christmas Eve?

Every year in December, we at Good News Tree Service do the gutter cleaning for one our HOAs for which we typically provides arboricultural services. With 265 townhomes, it provides work for the crew during a slower time of the year for tree services.

With family and friends coming to visit our clients, my crew was concerned about being on people’s roofs on Christmas Eve, since they’d be tromping around on the roofs cleaning gutters possibly being a bothersome disturbance to people on their special day. Well, we came up with a solution to a potential problem. My wife came up with the idea of putting reindeer antlers on the guys’ helmets. I thought the guys might think it was a stupid idea, but they actually enjoyed the fun humor of it all and let me tape the antlers to the helmets. They then posed for a photo op, and then hurried up onto the roofs to do their work.

We’ve got a great crew!