As thankful as I may be for the recent rain, it’s time for some sunshine now. There are mushrooms growing in my garden beds. Too wet!!! The weather reports don’t give me much hope though. It looks like it will at least be gloomy, if not raining, for a couple more days. Blah.
I should be making my way to the feed store, and I would be doing that if it weren’t for the city’s tree trimmers being back on my street. They are currently mutilating (again) one of the cottonwoods directly across from us. As many huge branches as they have chopped off that tree, at this point, they may as well just cut the thing down entirely. I understand needing to keep branches off of utility lines, but they seem to be going way overboard. I’m really being serious when I say they might as well finish that poor tree off. There’s just not much left of it at all, and it was a huge tree.
The irony is that the last few years the city has been foisting free trees on us and demanding we all plant them exactly where they want them –to create more shade on our paved areas– and in a few years, quite a number of these trees will be causing problems for the power lines. And, they sure the hell have cut down on the shade on the street in front of my house this morning with their latest round of tree mutilation too!
This all makes me ever so happy we don’t have any utility lines on our side of the street and no trees near the lines running to our house. They have no reason at all to even look at the trees in my yard, let alone touch any of them with a chainsaw. If I came home and any of my trees looked as horrible as the one they just got done cutting around on, I would be terribly pissed off. I’m not sure how the folks across the street will feel about it, but they seem to keep their yard looking nice, so I have to think they’ll at least be annoyed.
Anyway, I can’t go anywhere right now, because the wood chipper has me totally blocked in. I guess I’ll be sitting here listening to the sound of that cottonwood getting shredded for a while. They have a huge pile of giant branches stacked up to chip, and it seems to be going very slowly.
Once I am free to leave, I have to get to the feed store. I blew it off yesterday, because I felt crappy and the weather was icky, but I only bought a small bag of cat food at the grocery store yesterday. With the reappearance of Sasha on my front porch looking for kibble handouts, I either go today or have very hungry cats in the morning and no food to give them. I don’t at all feel like going anywhere today, but it’s got to be done. We’ll never make it to Saturday without more cat food.
Maybe I’ll stop at the craft store on my way home. I need to find some brown yarn of acceptable quality, and the Simplicity patterns are on sale for 99 cents. Not that I need any more patterns, but I’ve been entirely too lazy drawing up a gardening hat pattern. Maybe if I buy a pattern I’ll eventually not be so lazy about making the hat. I may not need any more patterns, but I do need a big floppy gardening hat!
I think I’ll go pester the cats until it sounds like the wood chipper has moved away from my driveway. The chainsaw crew has already moved on to the next tree to mutilate, so hopefully I’ll be able to exit my property soonish.
Poor trees. Truly, these guys are hacking these trees up way too much!