The Other Coast by Adrian Raeside for August 08, 2022

That’s horrible. Trim the tree; don’t cut it down.

Don’t plant it so close to the house doofus.

Gah! When we bought our home 40 years ago there were two palms (palms are NOT trees) in the backyard. The fronds touched the ground; that’s how short they were. They are now many, many feet above our two story house. It costs us about $600 two times a year to trim them. How I wish we had taken them out way back when.

You were cute when you were little.

Why didn’t his hair turn grey by the end? Trees don’t grow that fast.

Food, furniture, and shelter. Thank you, tree!

We lost a Bradford Pear during a storm. As they cut it down I asked to save part of the trunk and wrote the last words from “The Giving Tree” on it. I keep it in the garage and it makes me happy, just like the book does.

I saw a new housing development where they tried to preserve as many trees as possible (mostly pines). One house was built with a semi-circle in the eaves to allow them to keep a pine growing next to it. I’ve always wondered how that worked out after the first hurricane.

Shouldn’t the guy be 50 years older?

I learned that the hard way.

That’s just sad.

In Austin if the tree is > 24" in diameter you are not permitted to cut it down (with very few exceptions) or remove more than 1/4 of the canopy. If you do remove the tree without a permit, you can be fined $10K. The man should actually be 30 years older.

I love the sound of chainsaws in the morning. NOT!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

How old are you? That’s a big tree…..

i did yard work for a guy like this who fretted endlessly about a lovely, tall tree a short distance from the house. i kept explaining to him that the tree was far enough away and healthy enough that it posed no danger. he kept doubting. shortly after i stopped working for him he chopped the poor tree down…