For some reasons beyond me, the photo order and 'caption' is not working right. I've just added some details to the original text. Sorry its sorta crazy.
Fancy house with a treehouse in the back, hard to see through the fence. Fully suspended, $65K. Pool house, kitchen pavillion, 3 car garage/ shop/ apartment seperate from the 2 car attached garage, fountain in the circle drive.
40-50 ornamentals (many topped. Yay!...fixing other's poor work) to prune to get ready for a graduation party...just the once closest to the house, for now (wife came back in town and is happy!! husband should be, been out of town.)
This is the fanciest place I've ever worked, aside from subbing a day with Roger B on a sequoia removal at the Shoreline, WA home designed by some famous architect(s) (Olmsted Bros?). I met the husband and wife for 5 minutes apiece, and am working with their general contractor who keeps their places running.
The General Contractor is an interesting guy, came there 6 years ago to install the fountain, at a time when he was ready to retire, hasn't left. He's 71. Well-heeled.
Built a super custom Harley that he told me about...some custom shop that would let him build in their shop. The shop builds custom bikes for Seattle Seahawks, among others. 6'5" doesn't fit a regular bike, $100-150k. Big dude, rode it behind the shop once, a tiny bit...shop guys said from there it will just go into display/ storage, never to be ridden by the guy again. Have what you want, not want what you have mentality.
STUMPING
first pic is the AFTER of the 40" fir through the house, that had the two rakes on the stump. Found a Sub-contractor with a 40hp and 60hp vermeer stumper, working too cheap, and likes being tipped, as well as advice, he's 70, retiring from the State of Washington, getting into stump grinding. Respirators and sun hats...the underused PPE. A sprinkler really helps keep dry soil dust to a minimum.
A grass wildfire killed a bunch of trees along the back of numerous properties. This row of stumps was easy work, customer clean-up. Dahlia was home 'sick' from school, so she went with me. We played in the grass, colored pictures, etc. I shuffled plywood shielding a bit, moved the sprinkler a bit, etc.
Stump Sub doesn't think its worth $1000 for a radio remote control. I think he'll change his mind. He just fit down the side of the building/ carports and fence.
HYDROFOIL
The fancy house's shop gets used. The guy likes to race. A lot of guys buy hydrofoil kits...this homeowner built this from scratch, for his son. Little customer built Evinrude (Seattle area shop) goes on the back, with a 3/4-1 gallon fuel tank. Employee Greg in the picture. The Homeowner is a perfectionist type...there is a tiny run in the finish. After race season, it will be time to fix it. He uses a micrometer when turning the legs on a table.
CHERRIES
Cul de sac down the HOA's gated entry road, looking up the road to the house.
Neglected weeping cherries. The usual, headed back where it got too close to things, crazy deadwood, a couple vertical suckers.
This is the Maaco 1/2 and 1/2 comparison. The left side is two trees thick, the right tree, untouched.
Deodor Cedar needle dieback. Basic, manual RCX (kept Greg busy, nobody else is touching the pruning work here besides me) SGR pruning (me). All of the trees have been planted/ mulched poorly. Home is under 10 years old. EVER?YTHING is planted in a book-matched/ symetrical style, essentially. I think this property will push me to buy a good Air-spade/ Air-knife to fix other people's work. (cha-ching, low risk, ground level work). Not sure what's going on here, possible biotic issue??? Will look into it more. Meanwhile, some improved vascular flow can't hurt.
First time in 10 years of business where I have to0 many trucks.
The boys ran er clean out. 
