Stay up reminiscing till the sun come up
It is snowing! It's still melting in the streets, but it's sticking to trees and cars and yards. I am hoping it does not merely resolve back to rain again; I am enjoying at least the illusion of winter.
I have just been notified by my mother that the smaller of the two maple trees in my parents' front yard has been cut down. It was strangling in its own roots; half of it was as black as a fire; it lost tall dry branches with every high wind. According to professional assessment once it was down in sections on the lawn, the next storm would have broken the entire dead crown of it over my parents' house, which would obviously not have been a good thing, but everyone is still mourning. I climbed that tree almost every day as a child and adolescent in that house. It wasn't the higher climbing tree, but it had a branch that curved like a handlebar that was superb for hanging upside down from. It was the one with the bright green leaves in summer and the cut-paper jack-o'-lantern flare in fall; we hung decorations in it for Halloween. The whole landscape of the yard will look thrown out of true without it. We never tapped it, but it was a sugar maple.
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spatch told me the story of the cat who buys fish with leaves.
I have just been notified by my mother that the smaller of the two maple trees in my parents' front yard has been cut down. It was strangling in its own roots; half of it was as black as a fire; it lost tall dry branches with every high wind. According to professional assessment once it was down in sections on the lawn, the next storm would have broken the entire dead crown of it over my parents' house, which would obviously not have been a good thing, but everyone is still mourning. I climbed that tree almost every day as a child and adolescent in that house. It wasn't the higher climbing tree, but it had a branch that curved like a handlebar that was superb for hanging upside down from. It was the one with the bright green leaves in summer and the cut-paper jack-o'-lantern flare in fall; we hung decorations in it for Halloween. The whole landscape of the yard will look thrown out of true without it. We never tapped it, but it was a sugar maple.
spatch told me the story of the cat who buys fish with leaves.
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I love-love-love the cat who pays for fish with leaves--thank you for that!
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Thank you. I will have to find out how old it was. It was tall when we moved to the house when I was eleven.
I love-love-love the cat who pays for fish with leaves--thank you for that!
You're welcome! A cat of legend.
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I m delighted by your delight in the snow
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*hugs*
I m delighted by your delight in the snow
I like snow a lot!
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(My parents had to cut down a few of their backyard trees this year, and they decided that the wish of their heart was to retain as much of the stumps as possible and turn them into looming giraffe sculptures that now haunt the back road behind their house. When I went home for Rosh Hashanah this year there was a guy with a chainsaw working merrily away in the backyard the entire time.)
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Thank you!
(My parents had to cut down a few of their backyard trees this year, and they decided that the wish of their heart was to retain as much of the stumps as possible and turn them into looming giraffe sculptures that now haunt the back road behind their house. When I went home for Rosh Hashanah this year there was a guy with a chainsaw working merrily away in the backyard the entire time.)
(I admire your parents knowing what they artistically want and kind of want to ask for photographs.)
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Thank you.
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The cat story is great, however. I also liked some of the responses in the thread, especially, "My cat brings us leaves, and arranges them."
P.
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Thank you. I know that even in the wild, trees fall, but I am bracing myself to be stricken the first time I see the yard.
The cat story is great, however. I also liked some of the responses in the thread, especially, "My cat brings us leaves, and arranges them."
Yes!
I think Hestia might arrange leaves, and then scatter them with one furious sudden leap.
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What a sensible, bright cat!
It's such a leap of joy to see snow falling.
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Thank you. My parents are trying to figure out what to plant on its site. I am voting a blight-resistant chestnut, if we are allowed to adopt them yet.
It's such a leap of joy to see snow falling.
It is. I want a real winter, even if January is a late start.
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[CLAP WITH ME, GENTLETHEM]
FUCK CLIVE OF INDIA!
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I remember that line! Because I grew up on a selection of the letters of C.S. Lewis simultaneous with Narnia and The Screwtape Letters, it might have been my introduction to the existence of Robert Clive, which is probably fine.
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Nattu Nattu
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Justice for Tipu Sultan's tent!
(Thank you.)
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She does!
Thank you for your part in the seasonal rituals.
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Thank you.