That was fun. My relentlessness will continue!
I hadn't thought about shallow roots. I have several big trees around my house. Two oaks are well over 100 ft. high - one about 20 feet from where I am sitting, the other about 2 ft from he corner of the house. They are part of the reason why we don't need an air conditioner in our 100 degree summers.
They are great to lie beneath and look up at the enormous spread of branches.
But, what if they fell?
You have relieved me. It's so dry here, the roots may go to China - a China Syndrome.
So long as there is no earthquake.
In London, I wore a homburg, carried a briefcase and, of course, a classic Englishman's tightly rolled umbrella.
When it drizzled, we were faced with a major decision. Should we raise our umbrellas, or run for it?
No argument. Rolling up that damned umbrella after use was a tedious business. We ran for it.
Have a great New Year!
Harry
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Karen wrote:
Harry wrote: Not to worry. If we need more water, we'll get it from Oregon when Karen isn't looking.Oregon would be very happy to sell gray water to California at exorbitant prices on the free market but we are looking at another dry year and may not have enough water to go around at home. Of course, you wouldn't think that right now since It's been drizzling for two weeks and not expected to clear up through another week, but the meteorologists aren't happy yet. Keeps the skin moist, at least. I was leaving Office Depot this afternoon and stopped under the ledge out of the drizzle to get out my keys and a stranger teased me "It's just drizzle" because most Oregonians don't use umbrellas unless it's really raining - another reason you see so many ponytails or sports hairdos on women around here. At least in San Diego they started promoting dry gardens and naturalized plantings, as they now do in Las Vegas subdivisions to reduce wasteful lawn watering. Oregonians have yet to learn that lesson, since normally Mother Nature supplies us with mucho fresh water. These automatic sprinkler salesmen really do excel to sell their equipment here when it's so unnecessary! But that is exactly why some of these big trees fell over in those infrequent ice storms we have up here because their tree roots are shallow, too near the surface from all the rain. When the ice makes them top heavy, they come down. All these generations of Oregon homeowners who planted big trees awfully close to the house got a big surprise - and so did their insurers. You know what happened next. So, now that you've gotten a landscaping, environmental and hairdo lesson from me I guess we're partially even for all the Georgian you speak about so relentlessly and euphemistically. No, now that I think about it, we're not even close to being even. En garde. Karen East of Portland, West of Mt Hood
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