We moved into the back yard...

Well, we've told you all that we live on the river, thing was you mostly couldn't see it for all the dead wood between the house and cliff.
Rick just started taking down all the dead wood with the chain saw, lots of dead branches that were just blocking the view.

This is now the "new view" off the back deck...

We did it a little at a time. We didn't want to take down any good trees. So he chained and dragged and then walked back to the house to see the results.
We mostly did lots of branch trimming and the rest was just hauling the dead stuff away.