Butchered Trees and a Little Stitching, and a Request

I don't always have the prettiest things to look at in my back yard, but I have always enjoyed my neighbor's huge live oak trees in her back yard.  They provide morning shade to my back yard.  Then in the afternoon, the yard is shaded by trees in my other neighbor's yard on the west side, also a huge live oak tree.

Wednesday morning, June 3, when I came into the sunroom, there was a man in my back yard, looking up at the trees.  I knew right away what he had on his mind.  He was from the tree trimming crew under contract with the electric company that provides my electricity.   So I grabbed my camera to get a picture of the beautiful tree.  Double click and you will see the power lines weaving through the branches.

In just a few minutes, there were six or seven more men with their equipment, and soon two were climbing the trees, with their long ropes that they tied to the limbs, with their long saws attached to long poles.  Soon her back yard was covered with branches, which were then tossed into my yard.  They do the same thing every year, because it's easier to get the limbs out through my gate and out to the street where their grinding machine was parked in front of my driveway.

It always makes me sad when they do this, but I know it is necessary for the neighborhood to have power.  I couldn't resist taking pictures from inside my sunroom as they climbed higher and higher, and the ground crew dragged the limbs around the side of my house.  Notice the progression of the limbs removal in the pictures as they cleared the lines.

The tree with white blooms is is my yard; in the path too!

See the two snails near the top of my window?  Ha, ha!

There's a third man on the right in the light green gear lower down.

They didn't remove that center lower section here.  Looks funny from my window.

They took a lunch break and ate their sack lunches in the shade under the tree in my front yard before grinding up the mess they had dragged to my driveway (with my permission).

Here's the beautiful (?) site I have to look at for the next year or two!

Quite a slaughter, wouldn't you agree?

They left the two lower portions that hang over the fence into my yard.  At first, I wished they had gone ahead and removed that too; then I decided that would be the only place I could enjoy watching the birds and squirrels.  So far, I've seen only a few birds there!    I miss the morning shade!   A friend reminded me they weren't trimming trees for the homeowners' satisfaction; they were trimming them for the power company, who didn't want to pay to make the trees pretty.

Oh well, at least the wind and any ice next winter won't take out my electricity, from that side anyway.  They still have to do the trees on my west fence line!  Don't know when yet.

I made this little book for my DIL's year-old granddaughter, and will put a note with it when they come to see me Saturday, that says "Maybe you can get your big sister, who is 7, to read it to you."
This will be the front and back when folded.  I couldn't go to get a gift for her birthday a couple of week back, so I dug in the bottom drawer in my sewing closet and found this book panel, dated 2009, can you believe?

This week I've been working on a throw for my son with words from a panel by Home a la Mode.  I've really enjoyed working on it, and hope (ha, ha) I can finish it by Father's Day.   (I've had company every day this week, and a doctor visit Monday for severe right thigh pain.  I'll see a specialist for that the 19th.)  Here's a clue to the throw.   He loves to fish.

If you are still reading, I have a request of you.  Please join me in prayer for our nation!  First for the COVID-19 problem to be stopped, then for the family of the recent police brutality incident, then for all the rioting and senseless property distruction to be stopped.  I totally agree the four policemen were very wrong, and I do agree that people have the right to protest, but it needs to be done in an orderly way rather than destroying our cities and communities.  I pray that as a nation we will reach out to the Lord for healing and forgiveness for all our wrongs, each one of us,  so that He then can forgive all our sins and heal our land, just as He said in II Chronicles  7:14.   Pray with me; won't you?

---''Love"