Neighbors to the west: YOU’RE ASSHOLES
Brenda got home tonight to discover that the large black walnut tree that provides shade to our backyard — a tree, mind you, that a former tenant in the house to the west of us already cut back way too far — had literally been stripped of every branch large and small that poked even a little bit into their property. I’m not talking at people-level either. The lowest branch that leaned into WallyWorld was probably 10′ or more off the ground. I’m guessing a lot of walnuts fell and they decided it would be best to annihilate the tree to prevent having to pick up a few nuts next fall.
There is no way it’s going to survive this assault. No way in hell. I haven’t gotten a tree doctor in to look at it, nor would it do any good, but a tree this huge can’t subsist with such a tiny number of live branches.
The law, unfortunately, is on THEIR side, at least until the tree dies. Then the law moves over to MY side because I’ll be able to nab them for cutting the tree so badly that it died. That, my friends, is ILLEGAL.
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p> I have a year and a half of school left. One year and one half and one DAY will mark the beginning of my quest to get the hell out of here. I keep waiting for some idiot to jump out from behind a tree and tell me I’ve been Punkt. This can’t be real…]]>
