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To: Carolyn who wrote (1617)	6/9/1999 11:35:00 AM
From: Joana Tides	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7442

Howdy Pals, confessing to Carolyn I took the stuff out of the box, read the instructions, and assembled the tools, last night...then lazybones me had HAD it. (great Commonsense Safety Excuse, though.. being tired, what if I stumbled....) Well, at least I got new air conditioners, they're selling fast & once they're gone they have to be ordered special, no more shipments. The loss of one big shade tree made a big difference in our indoor climate on a hot day. Fans were enough for that corner of the house, up to that point - imagining how it would get without any of the big trees around, whshew. (To Jed, Jed Fer Press-O-DENT, Rispeckfuly REEkwestin An Ishoo Hyar:) It's landscapers putting chemicals on neighbors lawns (not here!) that have killed many big trees in this neighborhood in this decade. They like it as it makes their jobs easier to get that clipped corporate look that these transplanted cityfolk around here seem to favor. I took care of it all until few years ago when I had to start on allergy medicine. Finding a gardener, it took a few tries to find someone who was enthusiastic about agreeing not to use any chemicals around our yards! This place has a wilder look than many of the neighbors now: it's DaKine Oldfashioned - so what if the lawn edge isn't like a ruler as it would be if it were sprayed! The bushes are lightly trimmed in their natural shapes, NOT clipped into squares, spirals, teddybears & hat-shapes in that scary yuppie dentist office style to grow it close and scare away the birds, etc. Less birds for them, more for me...for now...but how long will it be til the birds stop coming around here to nest if they die off from the chemicals? Trees on the properties of the folks who spray it were first to go and probably the groundwater brought it to ours. Lost two trees from the same withering blight that got the others, in the last few years. The Tree Guy said it wasn't a spreading tree disease or pest, but it was just "old age". Old age, horsefeathers! These trees were both good 60 year old maples, and in many towns back east here the maples are 200 years old and thriving. I wish someone in this town would have the brains to ban herbicides and pesticides as a preventive! It should only be allowed if it must be used to fight some infestation or varmints trying to get established, after other natural methods have failed. The ground is getting poisoned, and still they keep pouring that stuff on to keep it looking UpTight...Wisht they'd stopit. So glad we'uns have such beautiful birds coming around, Carolyn! Yer pal, Joan