Week Eight

Yeah! A win! (75-68) This was a bye week for a lot of my players, but I was so impressed with Brees (who thought I'd ever say THAT?!) and the Patriots defense for floating things along. I picked up yet another new tight end off of waivers, who did well by scoring a point -- not super, but no real complaints. LT was a little slow, as was Stallworth, but I was so pleased to see Reggie Brown have a good game, even if he was sitting on the bench. (And the Eagles won -- nice!)

QB
	QB Drew Brees, NO	30
RUNNING BACKS
	RB LaDainian Tomlinson, SD	9
RECEIVERS
	WR Marty Booker, Mia	1
	WR Donte' Stallworth, NE	4
	WR Muhsin Muhammad, Chi	2
	TE Matt Schobel, Phi	1
DEFENSE
	D/ST Patriots	18
KICKER
	K Stephen Gostkowski, NE	10
BENCH
	QB Damon Huard, KC (BYE)	0
	QB Jason Campbell, Was	0
	RB Marion Barber, Dal (BYE)	0
	RB Michael Pittman, TB	0
	WR Deion Branch, Sea (BYE)	0
	WR Reggie Brown, Phi	11
	TE Alex Smith, TB	0
	K Matt Stover, Bal (BYE)	0

For visual interest, here are the five enormous trees in our backyard:



...and the even huger ones in the side yard.




Our town has rules about how many trees you can cut down, but since we have a largish lot, we get to take down up to eight a year. All of them have to be replaced with smaller trees (unless we want to pay a fee to the town). Get rid of the monster dark pines and gain some fruit trees? Or some small maples? Anyone have small, hardy tree varieties that they can recommend for the pacific northwest?