the orange ring of Death.
The markings are not even 24 hours old, and a tree service business card was left on our door today . The guy stopped back by this evening. Needless to say I was blown away by the quote. Not because it was so high, but because it was so low. These are two big trees. They are easily 8 feet around. I was preparing myself for the price to be double what he said it would be. The quote includes stump grinding and all clean up.
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Friday, July 20, 2007
We share our grief.
I related the bad news to family and friends in this email
We have had the orange circles of death painted on our two large Elm trees. I have been praying against the obvious for the past couple of weeks, but the Minneapolis Park Board Forestry Dept. caught up with us. Our back yard will never be the same. Our daughter will be sixty before anything could grow to a comparable size. Our neighbor has lived on this block her entire life. Just the other night she said she could almost remember when these where planted.
For those not in the know, when an American Elm gets Dutch Elm Disease it is marked for removal. An orange spray paint circle around the trunk.
There is nothing that can be done, but I will have my day. I will never support the Dutch National team in international football competitions again. I will root extra hard against them in the Euro 2008 Qualifiers. GO Group G; make me happy!
We have had the orange circles of death painted on our two large Elm trees. I have been praying against the obvious for the past couple of weeks, but the Minneapolis Park Board Forestry Dept. caught up with us. Our back yard will never be the same. Our daughter will be sixty before anything could grow to a comparable size. Our neighbor has lived on this block her entire life. Just the other night she said she could almost remember when these where planted.
For those not in the know, when an American Elm gets Dutch Elm Disease it is marked for removal. An orange spray paint circle around the trunk.
There is nothing that can be done, but I will have my day. I will never support the Dutch National team in international football competitions again. I will root extra hard against them in the Euro 2008 Qualifiers. GO Group G; make me happy!
The End Begins
My beautiful, large and old Elm trees have succumbed to the Dutch Death.
SweetStuff had been napping Thursday morning with our new baby girl. When She woke, she went to the kitchen and happened to look out the window. She noticed orange circles on both our Elms. At the front door was a note from the City Park Board.
She called me at work with the news, and wondered why I was not as crushed as she was. The funny thing is, earlier that morning, after I backed out of the drive way, I looked at the trees from the street and convinced myself that they where suffering more than drought stress.
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