Bye-bye Pine Trees, Hello Sunshine

Bye-bye Pine Trees, Hello Sunshine

My whole yard smells like someone spilled a 55 gallon drum of Pinesol. There were two huge pine trees right beside the house that gave us the willies every time the wind blew or lightning flashed. They are gone, more or less. They are not actually gone, they are just cut down. They should be gone today. The yard looks totally naked. My wife commented, “I think we better plant some trees.” There were two other trees that had to be making the neighbors nervous. They are gone too. Two huge red tips go today along with the pine debris.

The yard looks like it has been plowed and packed down with all of the tracks from trucks and bobcats. This will be a good opportunity to get rid of the English Ivey and landscape most of the yard. The only real regrets are that they ran over my Lenten roses and cut a huge branch off of a beautiful oak tree. The oak tree got injured when one of the pine trees came down. They had to amputate a limb. It now looks like a “Duke Power” tree.

In the back yard… The spinach and onions are almost ready to eat. The asparagus and potatoes are acting alive. I used some old planks from the deck to build rails on the potato bed to hold more mulch as the potatoes grow. I cut up most of my scrap lumber to make a lumber rack and a firewood rick. Good Friday is coming. “To plant, or not to plant? That is the question.”


David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://www.segrestrealty.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/.