Dude, who even knows.
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Shaped the trees so well that even if some shoot wilds off in some odd direction now it won’t get in the way of or shade out anything I’m actually trying to grow, so I can just let it finish out the year, pump its energy down to the roots, and trim it over winter.
Trees outside my sitting window have pinnate leaves, so I don’t have a good sense of how big they’re gonna be fully come in to project how complete the canopy’s gonna be this season after felling all those branches last year
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Think the older guy in the house behind me was a little standoffish at first because people in this house hadn’t had the best reputation before and here I was a young guy and now the fence is falling down, but then we had to end up dealing with the trees in the right-of-way in the bit between where it parallels my yard and his, and he’s from an old-stock Cascadian family where they all ended up working with trees and wood, he was some sort of technician with the Forest Service, so we’ve really been brought together talking over tree care and local plant life and growing conditions, it’s sweet
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Been tidying up the backyard but every day thinking “oh while I’m at it you know what I could do?” and putting more on my plate.
Sorting through the longer calf-thick branches I had out seasoning. Debarking and I notice all these with dug-out burrowing insect trails just under the bark, later filled in with mud; might be able to do something neat with staining to highlight them.
That “grass sickle” might really be a martial arts weapon but it does in fact cut grass, got all the spots the lawnmower’s bad for and laid the cut grass atop the wood in the hollow of Blueberry Hill.
Tomorrow dragging my good garden cart (like a 2-wheeled wheelbarrow) to the little nursery down the street to buy some pots and potting soil and transplant some annuals currently in places that’re gonna be wiped out in the remodeling.
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This is what I get to look at out the window. When I moved in that woodchip path was mud, there was a tangled stand of so many trees of heaven their (also tangled) roots put out enough poison to kill grass, both sides of the path (the far side is wildflowers now) AND the ledge within the retaining wall were overrun with dandelions, deadnettle, nettles, other broadleafs, bittercress, seafoam, and crabgrass, a thick tangle of blackberry canes hung off the fence on the other side of the chimney, that bush in the foreground was grown high enough to block the window, and the trees had a ton of thin, twisted, dead, witchy branches at window level and an overgrown carpet canopy up above blocking light and making the whole area look like a cartoon haunted forest.
But that allllll changed cuz of me!
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Me (arriving at my block): see, they know what to do with trees around here
also me: you have guerilla trimmed every one of these
Huh, okay, other waterspout visible from my chair I wanted to take off the neighbor’s tree isn’t sprouting leaves this year so didn’t use up spring growth-from-reserves and wont grow in the way of things.
Really iffy watershoot-regrown lower branch on the side of the neighbor who whatever his virtues isn’t on top of how trees grow looks like it’s finally sun-starved and isn’t putting out leaves this year, so I won’t feel bad about just going over and chopping it off.
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Alright I had to get up ass early, but the tree guys were just guys with a bucket truck who knew how to trim trees (and left the wood behind) and instead of staying around to reconnect power the electrical guys rigged me a new line in a better location.
This means that for the first time since I got the house, and before that decades at least, all of the trees are fully trimmed.
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Alright I had to get up ass early, but the tree guys were just guys with a bucket truck who knew how to trim trees (and left the wood behind) and instead of staying around to reconnect power the electrical guys rigged me a new line in a better location.
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