I have a tree. It’s a big tree. It’s a strange tree that has leaves pretty much all year round. It loses it’s leaves in the spring for a short time.
It also drops what looks like sawdust for about 3 weeks in July. It’s messy. I admit that.
I also know it provides shade for us, and the apartment building next door, and keeps us from having to look from our second floor balcony into the second floor balcony of the neighbors’ apartments beside our house.
All in all, I consider it a fair trade.
Two nights ago some crank came to complain that the dust from the tree was a problem.
Really?
These people can never say anything to the myriad of folks illegally parking anywhere and everywhere along the street, using the grocery store parking lot exit as an entrance, or worse as a through street, dogs left alone and sweating it out all day long in the apartments next door who then spend all day (I mean _all_ day) barking at each other, and yet they complain about a tree that wouldn’t listen to me if I did tell it to stop shedding?
Idiots. Ingrates. Ungrateful B*******.
Still, Sulseob doesn’t want to cause a problem, so we got after it to do a bit of trimming.
Not that there was a tropical storm coming through today. Killed 14 people nearby…
Didn’t stop us. uh-uh.
I’m going to be really sore for all that tree climbing and then the extra chopping, and still I’m not finished with the cleanup though I put in a good straight 8 hours on it after class today.
<sigh>
Just hope no one comes to the door to complain and it’s me that answers. I’m not nearly so diplomatic when it comes to these types of whiners…
Here are a few pics to let you see what kind of trimming it was – (not minor, I assure you).
