March 22, 2008 Fan Palm Removal

It's not that we don't love Palm trees. The one in our backyard was growing taller and wider in leaps and bounds. We'd already rerouted the picket fence when the gate no longer fastened shut, for the tree having nudged against the post. Merlyn had taken to barking at it daily, first thing in the morning (our kind uncomplaining neighbors will now have to invest in alarm clocks as they try to adjust to his silence) and last thing at night (the local drugstore, while selling more alarm clocks, will see a sharp drop in earplug sales)---doubtless some critter hiding in the tree's petticoat was sticking it's tongue out at him.
So, this weekend we gave Freddy's Tree Service $800.00 to replace the tree with a bald spot. This included removing the tree completely and grinding out the root, not an easy task, as the drill kept hitting the boulders that the tree had enveloped as it grew --having originally been planted in a rock garden).

That white thing in the middle of the frame is the abandoned picket fence post after we routed the fence.

Building a Home, October 9 2006

Maybe I should have called this "setting out the food dish" instead.
Every October our backyard is visited by a few of these fellows.

Flashback March 2005

My computer keeps telling me it's very close to being out of space. Apparently that's code for "Get all these photographs OFF me!" So before I move this file to the equivalent of a garage (external drive), where, not long after they arrive, they'll likely to be buried by so much more of the same that I may never find them again, I thought I'd post a few of these images of our house back when we first moved in. We've made some changes that we like since then....but the animals have made some that we're less fond of...so these photos probably won't be competing with any current house photos any time soon.

My brother put that fence in. That was the first change we made so that the dogs could not get to the two cute little bunnies we'd just inhereted when we bought the house. Within a week from taking this photo it was (and still is) a pretty little white picket fence.