While we were gone yesterday our new next door neighbor cut down a tree between the properties

[conuly]

Which is absolutely fine - we okayed this, that tree absolutely HAD to go, and he covered the cost entirely, which is good because if we could've covered it, we would've done it years ago.

It's better for that tree to be gone, but once he puts up the fence on the line like we also signed off on I'm going to measure out a reasonable distance and put a new tree in. Something that doesn't spread too much with the roots, good for narrow spaces.