{"id":11063,"date":"2006-06-21T20:00:44","date_gmt":"2006-06-22T00:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=3"},"modified":"2006-06-21T20:00:44","modified_gmt":"2006-06-22T00:00:44","slug":"lw-some-things-are-as-lovely-as-a-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=11063","title":{"rendered":"lw: Some things are as lovely as a tree"},"content":{"rendered":"

I actually had another spot of good luck yesterday,<\/strong> which I neglected to mention.<\/p>\n

As Lord and Master here at Blithering Heights, I\u2019ve been concerned, since the snow melted, about my tree cover. Specifically the single large tree in my front yard (I think it\u2019s probably an ash, but I\u2019m not much good with trees. My only other tree is a big fir [or something] in back). The front yard tree drops a lot of small, dry branches, and it didn\u2019t leaf out very well this spring. On top of that, it has a sort of soggy spot on the trunk, where it appears a branch was lopped off long ago.<\/p>\n

So I called an arborist last week. His wife answered the phone, took my number, and said he\u2019d get back to me. A diagnostic visit would cost $65. He never called me back.<\/p>\n

Yesterday I called another arborist. He listened to my story and told me he could come out and do some tests ($50), but his recommendation was that I should call my City Forester, who\u2019d look at it for free. The downside of that approach would be that if the Forester condemned the tree, there\u2019d be no appeal. But he didn\u2019t think I had a terminal problem, judging from what I\u2019d told him. He also suggested pounding in some tree food spikes, available at any hardware store.<\/p>\n

So I picked up some spikes tonight, and I\u2019ll be installing them later this evening. If that doesn\u2019t help, I\u2019ll call the Forester.<\/p>\n

I selected this arborist because, although his ad didn\u2019t feature any telltale fish symbols or anything, his choice of business name suggested he was a Christian. He certainly does business as we like to think Christians do (and are too often disappointed).<\/p>\n

Maybe civilization isn\u2019t coming to an end right away after all.<\/p>\n

Lars Walker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I actually had another spot of good luck yesterday, which I neglected to mention. As Lord and Master here at Blithering Heights, I\u2019ve been concerned, since the snow melted, about my tree cover. Specifically the single large tree in my front yard (I think it\u2019s probably an ash, but I\u2019m not much good with trees. … Continue reading lw: Some things are as lovely as a tree<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}