We have a few areas to accomplish to make our home a comfortable place to live full of our style. 

1. Fix sewer line
2. Nursery
3. Guest/Baby Bath
4. Master Bedroom/Master Bath
5. Kitchen
6. Basement
7. Landscaping our sloped and shaded yard

Our major priority currently needs to be our sewer line, unfortunatly on Dec 23, 2009, Sean went to the basement to turn over some laundry.  When he went into the laudry room he noticed "water" everywhere.  Five hundred dollars later it turns out we need to replace our sewer line coming from the house to the main line in the street.  UCK! A seventy five dollar video then confirmed that our gorgeous thirty foot maple tree that shades our house perfectly has attacked our plumbing and therefore needs to be replaced. 

The arborist told us it couldn't be saved and would cost twenty two hundred dollars to tear down, grind the stump and remove the debris.  This poor tree was planted by the orginial homeowner 30 years ago and is the first thing we loved when we drove up to the house.

How can I get rid of it while keeping the environment in mind?  Research...

After getting smart about Tree Care I've got a guy coming to the house on Friday to see how they can tear down the old tree, remove the stump and hopefully tell me what to replace it with.