Look at those beautiful trees!!! Even more important--look how they shade our deck and living room window. When I took this picture, the temperature was just 73 degrees,,,but believe me, when it is in the 90's it's a big deal. Honestly, the trees are part of the reason I had Chad build the deck off the front of the house, rather than the back. Well, Springville City, in it's infinite wisdom, has decided that the trees need to be cut down. We are fighting like crazy to stop the impending ax-hacks!!!! I actually am not in the mood right now to type the entire story---but Chad got permission to break up the concrete this weekend, so we can see the exact placement of the roots. And since I don't trust the city arborist as far as I can throw him, I will be calling my own arborist to come and take a look at the roots. Chad will be leaving his Prizm parked right by the trees to prevent the phantom tree hackers from attacking while we aren't home.
As a side note,,,when we were driving home from Cam's ball game tonight, guess who has 2 new little trees planted in his Less-Than-Legal-6-Foot-Mow-Strip????? You got it---the Great Mayor of this fair town!!!! It must be good to be King. (Actually I think he SHOULD be able to plant the trees where he did. But don't make one follow the rules, if you aren't going to make all follow the rules)
I will keep you posted. We are NOT going down without a fight!!!
Oh, I also forgot to mention that the purple robe locust we planted in the front island was large enough that it was shading both boys bedrooms until a microburst broke it last summer. So we are starting over with that tree, and if they do take the front trees, there isn't a great place to plant a new one in our yard (5 feet from the sidewalk). So please do a "save the trees dance" for us and maybe the tree gods will smile down upon us.
That is so bloomin' ridiculous!!! I'll be doing a naked save-the-trees dance for you tonight in the hopes it will appease the Springville City Gods.
ReplyDeleteThank you Kris,,,although it might distract, more than appease. But do it anyway. Beware though---I am having Andy film it so I can at least get a good laugh if they do take the trees out.
ReplyDeletekami, if the mayo has it in his yard stip that sets presidence. and if they leto one person do it, they have to let everyone do it. It the law. But it is Springville and laws do go far there. Fight it, fight it hard, throw a stink fit. A bitchy woman usually gets what she wants. Belive me I got the Provo City to plant trees and pave the parkway by my house because I complained enought. If all else fails chain one of the boys to the tree.
ReplyDeleteOh, I would love to see a naked protest in Springville. I haven't seen a good one of those since I left Berkeley, and that would just really tweak their noses.
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