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[Diamond_Dog]

8. My husband loves his trees, too,

But sometimes you have to be realistic. We did have a half-dead maple in the front yard that the tree guys managed to save. (The people who built this house lined the driveway with maple trees).

We have mostly maple trees. The squirrels scamper around and eat the seeds that fall.

All the trees do keep the house cooler in the summer. Our a/c doesn’t usually kick on till around 5 pm.

The drawback is that I have so much shade I can’t plant anything that flowers except impatiens. That’s OK with me, I’m not an avid gardener and the Hostas do nicely and come up every year.

Your Dad sounds a lot like my husband. He probably would have done the same with the tree you mentioned. He’s still an avid vegetable gardener although every year the garden gets smaller and smaller. 🙂

Good to hear from you, too!