Trees still crying, too hell with it.

Well, I bought pruning seal and sprayed each cut branch for like a week, and the things are still weeping. So I've decided to just let the sap pour out of them like floodgates until it stops. I feel bad, but it's dripping right back into the soil the tree is using, so I try to think of it more as recycling.

The Trees are cyring

Normally I've trimmed up my trees about early to late June. Mostly because I never remembered until then. However, I've been told by sources (my stepfather and friends at work) that the best time is just before Spring, namely now. So yesterday armed with my trusty Stanley Handsaw and two lawn/leaf paper bags, I went about my task. It took the better part of two hours, mostly because this year I had some decent sized branches to cut off (2" diameter). And I didn't think that it'd be easier to cut them up into pieces while they're still on the tree, so I used my kids' swingset as a makeshift Sawhorse. Anyway, after I got all the cutting done and bagged to be picked up by recycling (which doesn't start until April I think... that's another post) When I noticed the trees dripping. The larger cuts seemed okay, but some of the little branches I trimmed off were "bleeding". Guess sap has started pouring in.

Side Note: The sap from my trees tastes like sweet trees.

Well later in the evening I saw that all of them were pretty much pouring sap out of every cut, which got me worried. Called George who said it'd be fine, mom called back later asking if I called, and she said it'd be fine, but I could get that Pine Tar stuff you can use as a bandage. I know experts out there are saying just let the tree heal on its own, and I"m trying to do that. I just didn't want to have accidentally killed my trees because i pruned them.

This morning I went to check on them, and they all pretty much had frozen over. I'm wondering if that type of protection will help them heal faster.

I know I'm overthinking this.. but I don't want to have to buy 4 new trees....

My backyard, the swamp

So a construction crew working at the school behind me hit one of their water pipes. It streamed water all down the field between us and into three yards, mine and my two neighbors. Mine appeared to be the worst hit for some reason, as water flowed in, pooled, then streamed down the south side of my house, carving that divot I tried to fix a few years back. To make matters worse, I now found that heavy water flow on that side now seeps into my garage, thus possibly rotting the wood in that corner and ruining the drywall.

Well The City came out to see rather quick to tell me about the water pipe, and that it was the schools pipe, not the cities. Fair enough. But now I'll need to start calling them to work on the drainage in that field, and possibly help fix my lot, as I can't have the water ruining it. In the meantime, I'll hope for decent rain, and not torrential downpours.

What started as an off-weekend ended with a couch.

Well, we knew we were going to Nebraska Furniture Mart to look for a couch, not necessarily buy one. We wound up buying a nice one. Comfy, we tried all the way we sit on the thing and we felt good. the model was red, but we got a "camel" color to it.

Anyway, we were to go Saturday.... I went in to wake up my kid and there was this odd smell in there. It wasn't what I was used to.. this had a strong sickly sweet tang. Well I turn on the light, and my daughter is calmly talking to herself, covered in vomit. Yup, at some point in the night/early morning, she upchucked her Strawberry Chex dinner and stayed in it.

Well that'll wake you up faster than a pot of black coffee. I got Sara up and she took care of the bedding, where I cleaned off little one. She seemed fine after that, in fact there was no temperature nor any subsequent vomits. Guess something upset her and unlike an adult who'll just complain, she just BLAAAAA in the night.

That all being said, she just got it on her bedding and herself, yet that smell is STILL in her room. Neutra Air, Febreeze, it's still there. I was hoping to air it out at some point, but I'll try another round of Febreeze. Any suggestions?