My Advent Calendar

 December 5th

An ornament from Alaska. We visited there in 2007.

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Yesterday 5 trees were removed and totally shredded.  Quite an operation with one guy in the bucket trimming the trees then cutting off sections from the top down. Two others on the ground gathered the cut pieces and put them in the shredder.

Before

After view this morning.

See the bucket?

Cutting off the stumps.

That whole trunk will go in the shredder.

After - view this morning.

Vicki asked if we'd be planting anything else there.  The trees were on our neighbors property and an threat for both our houses.  I don't believe our neighbor will replant.  There are some small hemlocks that she should keep topped to make a hedge.

I plan to plant shade plants on my side of the line along our driveway to try to keep the weeds out.

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The thermometer is reading 0º this morning.

I'm off this morning on errands, a bit of Christmas shopping and an over due haircut.