January 8, 2013

• Downton Abbey

  My friend Laura kept mentioning Downton Abbey, how good it was.  How well they develop characters.  How amazing and addictive the show is.  Well thank you very much Laura, I am now hooked.  I found season one on Netflix and I've been neglecting everything else I have to do today.  One episode and I was useless, the day wasted.  And It's all Laura's fault.  So here I sit, watching another episode with the Christmas tree and it's bare branches staring at me like I was neglecting my responsibilities or something. 

  I seriously need a staff like the Crawley family.  Then I could be watching Downton Abbey and have my tree down at the same time.

  On the home front my trees are all trimmed and the ones removed gone, the yard cleaned up, the fence mended, the electric line fixed and a new electrical conduit in place.  I think the tree trimmer lost his shirt on this job.  But he held to his oral contract and admitted he was glad he had insurance to cover the unexpected "events."  I told him that he could use me as a reference because I am truly happy with the way he did the trees, cleaned out all the dead wood and despite the disasters he made it all right and good as new.  I think he was happy to get his check and see the last of my property.

  Our neighbors were wondering why we removed all our pine trees (eight in the back yard).  After they were down they understood.  Six of the eight had pine beetle.  Three were pretty much dead already.  Two of the others were hollow from the base up to about 20 feet.  These trees were all about 90 feet tall and we were worried if a bad storm came along we would end up with a tree on our house.  Last year I got bids to have them removed and the lowest bid I got was $1200 a tree.  This man came through and bid $750 a tree.  I think after it was all said and done he was wishing he'd asked $1200 a tree.  I know this picture isn't the greatest since it was taken in the evening but it shows the last of the trees before it came down.  Now I don't have to worry about my trees falling on my house, just my neighbors (who has pine beetle in his also but has determined he can try a systemic to kill them and doesn't think they will spread very quickly.  He has never been to Colorado).

  

   

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