That is rough, Jen. I'm glad she has you.
My back door neighbors ripped out a the fence long line of palm trees a while back, which had provided complete privacy for my back yard. Their trees, the previous owner had planted them. It was horrifying. First, they were beautiful. Second, the back of their house is not. Ugh. Well, DH found a nursery which has like 12' or taller trees to put in a new hedge. Ha! Easier said than done. He and one of my basketball sons, who benches over 300 #s went this morning and picked up 6 of them since that was all they could fit in the trailer. Got home and it took them over 3 hours to just get them off the trailer. Like wow super heavy. They just went to get another load, but won't try and offload them until they have another couple men to help. Clearly it will take some serious muscle to actually get them planted. Yes, this is my husband who was supposed to have hernia surgery a couple years ago but still hasn't because he is too heavy and the surgeon won't do it. A little no emergency surgery~ma might be in order. BUT I will be able to skinny dip again without concern over upsetting anyone. Of course, my first plan was for us to sunbathe nude daily until the neighbors put the trees back, but it seems unlikely that the plan would work.