Monday, April 15, 2013

 When Sarafina was very little, like babe-in-arms little, she didn't like wind. If it was gusty, she'd bury her face in my shoulder and say, "Windy! Windy, mama, windy!" We tried to skip days like that. She gets it honestly. I'm not a fan of gusty wind, although I like that the dogs like it so much. Must be fun to have your nose stuffed absolutely full of All The Smells. Like a moveable feast. It's also hard to throw a frisbee in windy conditions. I heard a coach today saying, "Make sure you release it low in the wind! No higher than three feet! The wind is absolutely unrelenting!" as the discs sailed randomly around.

The garden appears to be on my side of the equation. It's just drying -- seedlings looking sad, asparagus already leaning (guess who did NOT make a strong support structure in the off season?), stuff flying around. The chickens even sound kind of indignant. Maybe their feathers are literally being ruffled?

And that's not all. I went outside to shear the kale bed which is going to seed, and saw this:


Can't tell what's happening? Look at the big branch:


I'm no fan of this tree. Shades the back bed and they're just junky trees. I'm kind of hoping that this will be a wakeup call for the owners. Remember they're the ones whose fence fell down a few months ago. Now this tree is threatening that same fence. Hopefully they won't want to see that money down the drain, and not only will cut off this branch, but will take down the whole behemoth.

I left a note suggesting that their fence is in danger. We'll see if they respond. Even if they don't take down the whole tree, though, there's going to be a little more light in my garden soon.

9 comments:

Michelle said...

I hope they take care of it before it crashes into your garden bed. it's been windy here too, yesterday was just a miserable day, so cold. The best thing about these windy days is that it tends to take care of things like big trees growing in wrong places... :)

Stefaneener said...

Michelle, I'm with you. I may do as much indoor huddling as possible.

Annie*s Granny said...

Good luck getting rid of that tree. My neighbor has a huge English walnut, with many dead branches, that shades my garden. If the branches aren't falling onto my garden, or sometimes onto my head, the squirrels are throwing walnuts at me! I so want the wind to blow that tree down :-)

Stefaneener said...

Oh, Granny, I hope the tree blows down. Would you like some of our gusty wind?

Annie*s Granny said...

With our 60 MPH gusts this week, I think I've had more than enough wind! I'm so sick of cleaning up pine tree mess :-( Winds were so strong here in (December? January?) three of her pine trees went down.

Stefaneener said...

Okay, Granny, I'll take more of your gusts. The branch is just hanging there. How wrong would it be to tie a rope to it and stand on the other neighbor's illegal unit roof and pull the branch so it falls into the tree owner's yard, rather than on my beehives?

Annie*s Granny said...

Maybe if you did it in the dead of night. While singing a Gregorian chant. And wearing angel wings. *snerk*

Kristin said...

Looks like an Acacia. What a troublesome and invasive tree. More light. Yippee! Say, I've given your blog an award. Drop in and see:
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Melissa said...

There is a huge Eucalyptus in the neighbors yard that I would just LOVE if it blew over. Preferably on their house, which is also super run down and ugly to look at!