Last year I had to have some commercial pruning done on some aspens. They are prone to a borer that kills them, so I had an arborist come and take out overgrown junipers and buggy aspens. They were chipped by the arborist and taken away, but I did continue to pile branches I pruned back in the alley by the trash can. I had at least 2 years of branches I'd pruned piling up there, and finally called the city to see why they had not yet picked up. Oh... they no longer do a pick up... that is when I found out I had to arrange for trucking it to the landfill myself. I called the arborist back and he added my branch pile to a load on his truck. He works at composting everything he can, so I was glad I could pay him to take the branch pile away rather than having to hire a trash company to take them to the landfill.

The local newspaper reported today that May was the coldest May we have had in 35 years... "temperatures ran 5 degrees below average. Early morning readings of 20 degrees on May 5 and 21 degrees on May 7 established new record lows for those dates".

Alice