So I wanted more wood for Strawberry Ridge so I took my lopper and trimmed all the street trees in a block radius last week, which were either terribly overgrown, butchered by clueless trimming, or both.
Easier to ask forgiveness than permission, and anyway only one homeowner told me to stop. Like I say I can’t feel guilt or shame these days and I think it threw him that I cheerfully agreed.
Anyway, his tree still had leaves on and I guess they iced up because today I saw it lying in his driveway and he’d had to hire a crew on Christmas Eve to chop it up. I went down to say (Google translate bridging a language barrier) that they could dump their chipped load with me, and now the tree’s all on Strawberry Ridge.
Feeling pretty smug about that one.
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