Silly high desert weather, it's back to 75 degrees this weekend. Only two weeks ago we hit 95 and I had the a.c. on.
It's odd driving around town with green trees and snow drifts. Unfortunately for the trees, they hadn't started to drop their leaves (they haven't even turned color yet) so the snow got caught in the branches and broke a lot of beautiful old limbs. Now the question for a single homeowner is what to do with the remains.
My options:
- Hire the tree guy to come with his chipper and do the "Fargo" thing,
- Spend back-breaking hours with my tiny little saw, cutting the branches to take to the dump,
- Call one of my long-suffering neighbors and ask them to help out the hapless spinster, again,
- Wait until dark, drag the branches down to the park and let the city deal with them,
- Borrow a chainsaw.
#1 costs money, which rules that out. #2 would probably land me back at the eye doc's, getting another eye leak sewn up. Dragging half a tree six blocks (#4)is probably impractical, as well as illegal. #5, though fitting our motto "Girls can do anything!" would end up the most spendy, what with the emergency room visit, lost work time, the prosthetic and all. So it's #3 again. Luckily they're all Christian so they have to help, right?
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