Is in our back yard.
Not only did it interfere with our DirecTV dish - until I massacred it trying to trim it so the reception would improve (we finally had the dish switched to the garage), but it also wreaks havoc on our back yard and patio.
In the spring the tree flowers and then dumps the flowers all over the back yard. Shortly after that the thing begins to leak fine sap all over the yard. This means that our patio furniture, Kenzie's play things, and vehicles all get a sticky layer added to them throughout the summer. Now, the tree has already begun to lose its leaves. I swept the patio off yesterday, and it is already layered again with small yellow leaves this morning.
The only time the tree isn't a pain is the fall and winter - when we don't really use our back yard at all.
The tree does come in handy, though, in the mornings when Kenzie and I eat breakfast. The tree is kind of a junction for the neighborhood squirrels. One family of small squirrels has a nest in the front yard of our neighbor's. Each morning they jump from their tree to our neighbor's house. Then the cross her roof and use our tree to maneuver across our back yard and then over to our neighbor's garage. From the garage they leap onto our neighbor's huge cottonwood in her backyard. There they feast on bird seed for most of the morning.
Kenzie and I get quite the kick out of all this traffic.
So maybe the messes and sap are worth it. Maybe.
3 comments:
Hum... From your story I know that your tree flowers, drips sap, drops its leaves early and isn't an annoyance during the fall and winter. Can you guess what I don't know? If you said, "The scientific name of the annoying tree.", then you'd be correct. Stories go better with nouns and verbs.
Actually, there are several verbs used throughout the blog entry (not actually a story). You recounted several in your feedback. I actually don't know the scientific name of the tree, sorry. And you don't actually need to use a period and a comma after the quote in the next to last sentence. Responses go better when they are grammatically correct.
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