the remaking of a kitchen

the tree guys hired by excel energy arrived on friday to do a bit of trimming. they climbed high into the trees in the back yard.....amazingly high! they chopped and sawed and threw giant and small limbs to the ground. they stomped all over the wee ground cover i am trying to get going in the terraced area above the shed. they dropped limbs into ferns and hosta and onto tomato cages. all this will hopefully recover. THEN they piled all the branches in the middle of the front yard. when questioned they claimed that they were not the ones to haul away or grind up these branches, those guys would appear in the next 72 hours. this would be monday i guess. don called the energy company and was referred to the vegetation manager, then he called the tree trimmers several times and finally talked to the manager there who said they would repair any damage and they'd never killed a lawn by piling crap on it. i think those were not his exact words.
i had planned to have things looking decent this weekend as one neighbor's son is getting married today and the guys across the street are having a dinner party. so here we sit with the gigantamous yard mess. boo hiss
to take care of some of the frustration i chopped up about 3/4 of a shrub by the newish maple tree and don finished the job and dug out the roots. tomorrow i will plant the hydrangea that has been in its nursery pot for a month or so. i think the other shrub out there needs to go also.

Labels: mess, trees, yard