Arborist Needed

[jinman]

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[Chuck52]

I was hoping you were going to ask for help with pruning trees. I don't yet have trees growing through my roof, but I do need to prune several fruit and nut trees to make them behave.

Chuck

 

[Egon]

Looks more like a "Roofer Wanted" situation to me.

 

[jinman]

Looks more like a "Roofer Wanted" situation to me.

I think they need to cut their grass too, Egon. It's kind of a fire hazard at the moment.

Chuck, that's a Chinaberry tree growing up through that porch. I just couldn't drive by without taking a picture. It's sitting on a corner lot, right across from a fairly nice but modest home. I'd be scared to death of fire if I lived that close.

 

[kthompson]

jinman, as to fire hazard, in some areas they would require it to be cleaned up for that reason and then who might be living there.

 

[RobS]

Great subject Jim, go back at morning or evening light and grab a fantastic photo of it!

 

[DieselPower]

Hey that kind of looks like my old house. I got one of those about a 1/4 mile down the road from me. It was the house my father grew up in. It's just taller, is probably in worse condition and has a few more tree's than that one. Still makes a nice home for the local bat, racoon and black snake population.

 

[jinman]

Great subject Jim, go back at morning or evening light and grab a fantastic photo of it!

Rob, that's probably a good suggestion, but. . . . Sunset is a town on the way down. It seems that Montague County in Texas is a hotbed of corruption that is almost endemic for its residents. This little town that I live near just struggles to maintain itself on a daily basis. There are easily a dozen houses like this one within a 3-block area. I have no desire to be around this area after dark. I intentionally just drove by and snapped a couple of photos. Doing anything more extensive might bring a bullet in my direction.

In a way, I'm kidding, but in another way, I'm not. Just last week, the former Sheriff of Montague County was charged with allowing drug dealing and sexual abuse and favors to county jail inmates. Many jailers (about 12), mostly female, have also been charged. The people of Montague County have every right to feel embarrassed and suspicious of their elected officials. Thankfully, the cities of Bowie and Nocona seem to not suffer the fate of smaller towns.

At the time of the Great Depression, Sunset was a town on the way up. It had two main highways intersecting in the middle of town. I'm told it was a thriving town with at least three banks. Old foundations and several storefront walls still litter the main downtown area. What happened during the depression was that the town burned down. Most insured buildings got torched. It will be a long time before Sunset lives down that legacy.

A few years ago there were federal and state funds made available on a matching basis for small towns wanting to upgrade their public utilities. Sunset has no public sewer system, so that was selected as the project of choice. Sunset obtained over 1/4 million dollars as a stimulus to get the project rolling. Civilian volunteers and military construction battalions pitched in and got the main infrastructure well on its way to being completed. Materials were ordered and delivered to the site of the treatment facility. Things were moving right along when they discovered money was missing. The city's treasurer had helped herself to over $60,000 of the project's money. Much more had been misspent. The state called for the money to be returned and the project ground to an immediate halt. Last year, the supplier of the materials at the treatment site prevailed in court and was able to reclaim all their materials.

So, Sunset is a place with lots of houses like the one in the picture, but I will not be spending too much time taking pictures as darkness approaches. Some of our local residents might take a dim view of my taking a picture of their property.

 

[groundcover]

Years ago my dad put an addition on the house and built around a 100 ft Tulip Popular, it went right up through the overhang . Quite a while later it had to be taken down and there was a square hole in the roof ,kind of a 'talkin piece' till the roof got redone.

 

[LBrown59]

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Looks like a scene right out of Green Acres.