. . . it's no secret . . .
. . . these are tough economic times . . .
. . . good grief! . . .
{sniff/tears}
. . . like folks everywhere, we're cutting back . . .
. . . pruning, even . . .
. . . our shamel ash tree
. . . but this mutant specimen
has gotten so big,
it's scaring us . . .
. . . take for instance,
that huge branch
overhanging the corner of my bedroom . . .
. . . fyi ~ i blog right by that window! . . .
. . . so i did the only sensible thing . . .
. . . called bernabe . . .
{like barnaby ~ only spanish}
. . . he gave me a quote for extensive trimming . . .
. . . "too much," said i . . .
. . . he came down in price a hundred bucks . . .
. . . i said, "how about for that new lower price . . .
{the fruit has never been good}
. . . "and, by the way,
do you know anyone
who would want
this huge satellite dish?" . . .
{which i forgot to snap a photo of ~
we've had it since
the days before there were 900 cable channels
& it was necessary to view every byu/suns game}
{but it looked sort of like this}
. . . he said, "si, in mexico, but is too far to drive" . . .
. . . then he said for the original quote price, he'd
•prune the monstrous ash tree
•take out the orange tree
•disassemble/remove the satellite dish
•dig out the post & concrete
•trim the flowering pear tree in our front yard
•clean up, and
•haul it all away
. . . branches were dying . . .
{can we talk about
the [seriously] billions of seed pods it drops?
it's a female}
. . . bernabe was ruthless . . .
. . . big branches started coming down . . .
. . . brushing against the hedge
on the other side
of our back fence . . .
. . . disturbing a large bee colony/hive . . .
. . . hence ~ bernabe's helper
trying to keep them at bay with two hoses
while saying "cheese" . . .
{go ahead ~ click to enlarge}
. . . this was a three & a half day project . . .
. . . requiring about nine truckloads
to haul it all away . . .
. . . now all that's left is a little tidying up . . .
. . . actually, i'd love to
bury our trampoline over here . . .
{someday ~ but we're cutting back right now!}
. . . yes, it'll take a while
for this beautiful tree
to fluff out again . . .
. . . cutting back isn't always pretty . . .
. . . but, right now, it's necessary . . .
. . . what're you doing to cut back? . . .
4 comments:
wow...that is a satisfying tree-taking-down job. go bernabe.
sorry about bashas. it shall be missed. best produce for salsa in 85204, i reckon.
Schwan's man...who has food that is so handy and easy...housecleaner every once in awhile (but that only lasted about six weeks before I had to call her up again!)-still working on that bad habit...less sit-down restaurants for dinner...refi with lower interest rate...we haven't seen a whole lot of the recession here in OK yet (I couldn't find a parking spot last week at the mall)!
What a nice job Barnabe did...we need our's trimmed too...our little granddaughter went to jump out of our's the other day like they always do by grabbing a branch and the dang thing snapped off with her and she hit the ground...so I think we need to do some serious trimming soon...just no $$$$$ right now....with my hubby barely working and my three little jobs are hardly cutting it...so we have majorly cut back EVERYTHING! Not fun...I tell ya!
SAD...your Basha's is gone?! Your backyard definitely got an extreme make-over. Way to be an expert negotiator. We're cutting back on quite a bit, but it'll be worth it when Chris is finished with school! I need to remind myself of that often.
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