Joys of Homeownership
Feb. 27th, 2007 11:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
judecorpI was sitting on the couch shutting the computer down when I realized that I had been hearing a chainsaw for several minutes. Well, I have had at least one neighbor do a home improvement project since we moved in but soon realized that this sounded a lot closer than across the street.
I looked out the window and there was a big orange truck in front of my house, and a man in a bucket sawing branches off our dead tree. I went outside and stared at him for a while until I /finally/ caught the eye of the assistant guy and yelled, "What's going on?" He said, "The Town wants this tree down." I said, "Were they supposed to TELL me first?" He shrugged. I said as long as they are planning to remove the massive amounts of wood strewn all over my lawn and would move their truck in five minutes so I could get out of the driveway, we'd be fine. (The tree was dead. We were thinking that at some point we'd have to pay someone to take it down.)
I called Jen to let her know what was going on and expressed displeasure that they would probably just cut off all the limbs and leave a big, dead trunk in our front yard. She said that since it was rotted clear down, they'd probably take it all the way down. She said, "I doubt they'd leave an eight foot stump."
HA HA HA, as if the Town is going to do that when they're really only worried about the road and the power lines. When I left for work a few minutes later, the men were preparing to shove all of the downed branches into the mulcher attached to their truck... and had left behind a beautiful stump of at least ten feet.
Good times.
I looked out the window and there was a big orange truck in front of my house, and a man in a bucket sawing branches off our dead tree. I went outside and stared at him for a while until I /finally/ caught the eye of the assistant guy and yelled, "What's going on?" He said, "The Town wants this tree down." I said, "Were they supposed to TELL me first?" He shrugged. I said as long as they are planning to remove the massive amounts of wood strewn all over my lawn and would move their truck in five minutes so I could get out of the driveway, we'd be fine. (The tree was dead. We were thinking that at some point we'd have to pay someone to take it down.)
I called Jen to let her know what was going on and expressed displeasure that they would probably just cut off all the limbs and leave a big, dead trunk in our front yard. She said that since it was rotted clear down, they'd probably take it all the way down. She said, "I doubt they'd leave an eight foot stump."
HA HA HA, as if the Town is going to do that when they're really only worried about the road and the power lines. When I left for work a few minutes later, the men were preparing to shove all of the downed branches into the mulcher attached to their truck... and had left behind a beautiful stump of at least ten feet.
Good times.
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No!
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Date: 2007-02-27 07:27 pm (UTC)But seriously, they did us a major favor. That tree was dead and while it didn't look like it was going to fall down RIGHT NOW, it was inevitable.
must be one of those days
Date: 2007-02-27 09:06 pm (UTC)Re: must be one of those days
Date: 2007-03-01 08:27 pm (UTC)Ugh.
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Date: 2007-03-02 03:02 am (UTC)As it was, the max reading they got was 10, which is "ok" (it has to get up to 20 before they start talking about evacuation).
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