Timber!

"Thank God we don't get all the government we pay for." ~ Will Rogers

Gentle Readers and Loved Ones,

I honestly don't know what to think about what I am about to write.  This is either yet another way that our tax dollars are used wisely by benevolent city management or wasteful expenditure that people would spend more wisely privately.  I just don't know enough to say. 

The city came today - in freezing weather - and cut down the Ash tree in front of our house.  It was in the right of way so this was something that us citizens do together.  

Here's Eagan's web page about the Emerald Ash Borer, the evil that lurked in my aging tree.   

Evidently the hoped for Ash Borer winter apocalypse where huge numbers of the evil insect died in the long and cold winter of 2019 did not come to pass.  

https://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/disturbance/invasive_species/eab/control_management/cold_hardiness/

So, here is the dignified and glorious fall of our stately tree that has been our driveway sentinel for a score of years.

 

On that sad note, I remain,

Dad / Geoff