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?
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.
So because I am a total rebel, I broke out the reciprocating saw and cut it down.
And then hauled it over to my lasagna garden {in the making}.
Living life on the edge. Yep, it’s a thrill a minute here in suburbia.
Someone save me.
~Mavis
Cathy says
Love ❤️ gardening
Best wishes for 2016 and digging for Dinner
Linda says
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
Andi says
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!
Mavis says
Thanks. And hopefully the visitors were enjoyable or who know what might be in that cup of something! 😉
mandy says
Now I’ll have two places to go for my nighttime reading. Thank you!
Mavis says
I promise not to add a third! Thanks for stopping over!
Amy says
Haha!!!!! What laundry?!
Sunny says
Love your new blog!
Mavis says
Thanks. I’m so excited to finally share it!
Lindsay says
Yes! I found and loved one hundred dollars a month for its gardening content. I am so excited for dig for your dinner.
Mavis says
So excited to have you! Thanks for hopping over to the new site.
Lace Faerie says
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!”
Mavis says
Oh man, haven’t heard that movie quote in years. Ha!
Alison R. says
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!!!
Mavis says
Snoopervising committees and crazy neighbors. It’s what we get for living in suburbia. Deep sigh.
Daddio7 says
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.
Julia says
It’s not a tree, it’s a shrub!! Does the HOA say you can’t cut down a shrub?