RIP little tree!!

Sam and I have these awesome Juniper trees alongside our house. We have about 10 of them, they're about 20-30 years old, and we love 'em! They provide great privacy from our neighbors and they're a great wind barrier. A few weeks ago, while Sam was on the roof turning on our swamp cooler, we noticed that one of our Juniper trees has gone back home to the mother tree. We could handle one tree dying, but then we noticed that 3 more trees are looking like they're going to die as well. We think it's some kind of tree disease. So, we wanted to get the dead tree out before it spread to any of our other living trees. So Sam chopped down our little dead tree and then dug out the roots.......it was about 100 degrees that day. Hence all the sweat marks all over his shirt (BTW, Sam's holding a hand saw in this hand). Hopefully that's the end of our tree saga. Stay alive little trees!!!!!!!