The demise of the little-leaf linden
Once again, we have zero trees in our parkway.
This just happened within the past 15-20 minutes. I've been home about an hour, had a little lunch, then wanted to go out and check the progress of the garden. (The cherry tomatoes are coming along deliciously.) However, between lunch and garden exploring I heard large trucks in the area, and a peek outside showed two city trucks lumbering down the street. Uh-oh. This does not bode well. I went and got a picture of the linden, then went in the backyard. It was after I'd come back upstairs and was checking on the bird* that the trucks came back to our area.
Once was a dump truck, the other...hmm...a back hoe? A digger of some sort? There was a large scooper on the front and a smaller scooper on the back (I'm sure those are technical terms). I was there to witness the guy from the dump truck take a tiny chainsaw and slice through the trunk just below the branches, then give it another swipe to take of the top, leafless branches. They then attached some sort of chain to the remainder of the trunk, with the other half attached to the smaller scoop, and simply pulled it out of the ground. The skinny trunk joined its other deceased brethren in the back of the dump truck; there looked to be four in all. Poor little trees. We now have a hole in the lawn there, but a third guy came along and plopped a construction horse inside so people at least have a warning that there's a hole. Wonder what my parents will think when they get home. Also, wonder how soon we'll get the other tree. I hope it's soon. I don't like having a blank space out there...AGAIN.
*When I opened Kirby's cage upon coming home, I knocked her ladder off its normal rungs, and it was sort of askew resting on her open door. When I came back upstairs, I discovered the ladder hanging off the door. Hmm. I don't know if she'd tried to climb it and it fell, or if she moved on the door and that was enough to jar it. Amusing, whichever way you look at it.
This just happened within the past 15-20 minutes. I've been home about an hour, had a little lunch, then wanted to go out and check the progress of the garden. (The cherry tomatoes are coming along deliciously.) However, between lunch and garden exploring I heard large trucks in the area, and a peek outside showed two city trucks lumbering down the street. Uh-oh. This does not bode well. I went and got a picture of the linden, then went in the backyard. It was after I'd come back upstairs and was checking on the bird* that the trucks came back to our area.
Once was a dump truck, the other...hmm...a back hoe? A digger of some sort? There was a large scooper on the front and a smaller scooper on the back (I'm sure those are technical terms). I was there to witness the guy from the dump truck take a tiny chainsaw and slice through the trunk just below the branches, then give it another swipe to take of the top, leafless branches. They then attached some sort of chain to the remainder of the trunk, with the other half attached to the smaller scoop, and simply pulled it out of the ground. The skinny trunk joined its other deceased brethren in the back of the dump truck; there looked to be four in all. Poor little trees. We now have a hole in the lawn there, but a third guy came along and plopped a construction horse inside so people at least have a warning that there's a hole. Wonder what my parents will think when they get home. Also, wonder how soon we'll get the other tree. I hope it's soon. I don't like having a blank space out there...AGAIN.
*When I opened Kirby's cage upon coming home, I knocked her ladder off its normal rungs, and it was sort of askew resting on her open door. When I came back upstairs, I discovered the ladder hanging off the door. Hmm. I don't know if she'd tried to climb it and it fell, or if she moved on the door and that was enough to jar it. Amusing, whichever way you look at it.