Ugh!! I am sorry, David. I'm confident you were clear on what you wanted.

Ugh!! I am sorry, David. I'm confident you were clear on what you wanted.

Language issues, but also their mindset. Everything's a chainsaw solution.

I just hate dealing with people that treat plants and trees as decoration instead of living things. A nuisance and liability to whack down.

I mean it's not a butcher job because I went down so many times but it's still not what I had discussed with the head of the company.

It'll fill back out in time, but I'm not going to do this again. When I first moved in I paid Emmett and Kalena to trim the bottom three or four feet of branches hanging down and that was a better solution.

I know you were looking for a different result and it is disappointing. The tree lined sections of A1A are always "naturally" trimmed to the height of the trucks that pass beneath them! It makes me sick when I see them go through to clear wires and just chop out chunks of beautiful trees. A neighbor had a beautiful tree with lines going through it so they went up and bound the wires to the trunk of the tree like it was a pole and they left the tree alone.

I checked again in the back and the front tree. It's okay.

Because I kept going down there they did get the message to do less.

It's just they gave my tree the asymmetric haircut that Fleabag's sister got: [link]

It's just they gave my tree the asymmetric haircut that Fleabag's sister got: [link]

I had never seen that before! Now I need more.

I had never seen that before! Now I need more.

Oh, it's such a great show! I think you will love it. The second season (which has this scene) is an absolute masterpiece. One of the best single seasons of television ever produced. Funny as fuck and emotionally true.

Added to my list!

If my mom was reading this, Hec, she'd love you SO MUCH. (Not that she doesn't, but, like, more than as a guy that it's good that I hang with. You might forge your own bond. Mom is passionate about landscaping.) No pressure, Hecubus, but I just finished a revision on a crime story that made me think it's too bad that JZ can't read it. Maybe because it's about things that women kind of pull on each other--would you like to see it? Didn't wanna drop 4,000 words on you without asking.

In my dad's family, you'd just be an aunt. Any relation (or family friend) a generation up (or more, we didn't use greats either) is pretty much aunt or uncle.

I often try for "Auntie" but for some reason it never sticks. Most of my family just does first names, but like I said, 50 years feels like it calls for an honorific. We'll see if Tia sticks.

I marked your post Jess! I love the design but $31 seems a bit steep for a tea towel. We'll see whether it lodges in my brain in a way I can't ignore.

50 years feels like it calls for an honorific

Don't insist too hard, she might just end up calling you "vieja."