Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2021/04/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That's a pretty descriptive definition, Don. On 4/1/21 2:48 PM, Don Dory via LUG wrote: > Spring cleaning on the outside. > > On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 2:26 PM Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> > wrote: > >> After what seems like two weeks of rain, we have three sunny days >> forecast. I have a 4-person crew cleaning out the vines and trash trees >> from my shrubs in preparation for trimming the shrubs. Boxwoods collect >> a lot of vines and invasive plants in a year's time. Here, the vines >> were removed in preparation for a shaping trim. >> >> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20210401-P4013809.JPG.html >> >> A homeowner can make a lot of poor choices in 50 years. The utility >> lines run above my rear property line. I originally planted white pines >> well inside my property line. They got too tall, interfering with the >> wires, so the utility company said they must go. They offered me >> several types of replacement plantings. I chose a species of holly that >> seemed attractive. Things were fine until the holly branches reached a >> height that provided a resting place for the squirrels that use the >> telephone and fiber wires as a "high road". The resting squirrels chewed >> into the fiber bundles, requiring the replacement of a section of the >> fiber line. The utility company that had planted the hollies then >> required that they be cut down, which they did, leaving stumps about two >> inches high. These sprouted regrowth which is now about four feet high. >> This photo shows the female member of the work crew shaping up the first >> of the hollies. >> >> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20210401-P4013821.JPG.html >> >> -- >> Jim Nichols >> Tullahoma, TN USA >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA