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Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. That’s How I Roll

By Mavis Butterfield on January 3, 2016 · 17 Comments
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arborvitae tree

While The Girl and I were in the Home Depot walking our indoor marathon last week, we noticed the Home Depot still had a few arborvitae trees in stock for $19.99. So while we were out running errands yesterday we stopped by to pick one up for the back hedge.

True, the ground is totally frozen, but that doesn’t mean I can’t chop down a dead tree while no one is looking and haul it out of sight, right?

Reciprocating Saw

Well, technically I think this might be a HOA violation because the trunk of the tree was larger than 6 inches. But seriously, don’t you think it’s totally lame to have to ask permission {in writing} to cut down a DEAD tree on your own property? Especially when you have the replacement tree standing by?

I mean we’re not talking about a 50 foot pine tree that could land on someone’s house, we talking about a 12 foot tall arborvitae that’s DEAD and nobody is even going to miss.

cutting down arborvitae tree

So because I am a total rebel, I broke out the reciprocating saw and cut it down.

hauling tree

And then hauled it over to my lasagna garden {in the making}.

lucy the puggle dog

Living life on the edge. Yep, it’s a thrill a minute here in suburbia.

Someone save me.

~Mavis

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Comments

  1. Cathy says

    January 3, 2016 at 8:29 am

    Love ❤️ gardening
    Best wishes for 2016 and digging for Dinner

    Reply
  2. Linda says

    January 3, 2016 at 12:42 pm

    Your new blog will be an instant hit Mavis and so will your ebooks. Will the books be helpful to those of us who garden on the east coast? If so, I’m headed to the kindle store. Linda

    Reply
  3. Andi says

    January 3, 2016 at 4:13 pm

    The last of the 12 guests staying for four days just left. Time for a cup of something and exploring the new site while I recover. Thanks for a surprise treat and Congratulations!

    Reply
    • Mavis says

      January 4, 2016 at 5:20 pm

      Thanks. And hopefully the visitors were enjoyable or who know what might be in that cup of something! 😉

      Reply
  4. mandy says

    January 4, 2016 at 12:38 am

    Now I’ll have two places to go for my nighttime reading. Thank you!

    Reply
    • Mavis says

      January 4, 2016 at 5:28 pm

      I promise not to add a third! Thanks for stopping over!

      Reply
  5. Amy says

    January 4, 2016 at 11:34 am

    Haha!!!!! What laundry?!

    Reply
  6. Sunny says

    January 4, 2016 at 1:27 pm

    Love your new blog!

    Reply
    • Mavis says

      January 4, 2016 at 5:09 pm

      Thanks. I’m so excited to finally share it!

      Reply
  7. Lindsay says

    January 4, 2016 at 1:37 pm

    Yes! I found and loved one hundred dollars a month for its gardening content. I am so excited for dig for your dinner.

    Reply
    • Mavis says

      January 4, 2016 at 5:09 pm

      So excited to have you! Thanks for hopping over to the new site.

      Reply
  8. Lace Faerie says

    January 4, 2016 at 9:36 pm

    Love the garden blog–that was my favorite part of HDAM. Love to hear about you thwarting the HOA! To quote a famous movie, “Party on, Dude!”

    Reply
    • Mavis says

      January 7, 2016 at 6:57 am

      Oh man, haven’t heard that movie quote in years. Ha!

      Reply
  9. Alison R. says

    January 5, 2016 at 6:32 am

    We replaced a tree in our front yard with a 12 foot maple tree. We have an HOA so if you take out a tree and replace it immediately you do not need permission to do so.
    Unfortunately my neighbor (I have termed her “the stalker”) pitched a hissy fit about the fact that “she loved that tree and it had been there for all of her children’s growing up years.”
    a. It was not her tree or yard.
    b. We have a dense green flowerbed (with trees and shrubs) between our houses.
    c. Her children are 5 and 9.
    d. The tree was diseased, we had treated it more than once.
    I suggested that she plant her own Yoshino Cherry tree, she said “I would rather look at your tree.”
    Our HOA is a more relaxed one, my neighbor “Gladys Kravitz” is not.
    Please save me Mavis!!!

    Reply
    • Mavis says

      January 7, 2016 at 6:52 am

      Snoopervising committees and crazy neighbors. It’s what we get for living in suburbia. Deep sigh.

      Reply
  10. Daddio7 says

    January 9, 2016 at 4:48 pm

    After 45 years in the same home those lovely little oaks I thought would supply needed shade are 45 feet high and have my home covered in leaves in perpetual darkness. In a few weeks I’m going to borrow my brother’s 30,000 lb backhoe and knock 6 of them down. Ah, life in the country without HOAs.

    Reply
  11. Julia says

    January 10, 2016 at 3:47 am

    It’s not a tree, it’s a shrub!! Does the HOA say you can’t cut down a shrub?

    Reply

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