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Dear Folks,

 

Nothing much on Spruce St. today. My next door neighbor had one of her trees taken down. It towered over my garage, but was no threat to me. Kitties will miss fantasizing they can catch the birds on it when they climb onto the garage roof.  Roots from the tree grew into the neighbor's house and messed up her plumbing. Now she needs new flooring in her bathroom because it flooded.  Many people plant trees too close to their houses, but also the birds drop seeds 

and things get planted that way. 

 

There was a beautiful fig tree right next to the side of my house that kept growing tall to get sun but couldn't get wide.  I had it cut low, and now it's a bush.  I had a few other tree problems.  I am thinking of having a pear tree planted in the yard, so long as it can avoid the electrical wires. They aren't very aesthetic about electric wire placement 'round these parts.

 

It's been smokey here, so the sun has been barely visible today.

 

I had a teeth cleaning this morning.  

 

I'm making a potato casserole right now in the oven and I'll have a salad and some cheese.  I went to my favorite produce pay-by-the-honor-system stand in Chico today after the teeth cleaning, so I'm stocked with tomatoes and cucumbers. I got a couple red onions and some orange squash too.  I like to bake the squash and then slice it.  It's almost like sweet potatoes.

 

That's the scoop up here in beautiful Gridley by the sea (not).

 

What's new with YOUSE?

 

Love,

Phoebe