Shade Trees?...that's why we Floridians invented Air Conditioning....
(stir)
Indeed!

I remember the story on my favorite channel...Beach TV! My Daddy, the engineer, designs HVAC for large commercial sites in Houston, even still at 83! A/C fed, clothed,educated and cooled me! I

my Daddy, A/C, TX and FL!!!!!
And...how much does it cost to get a 'properly placed' full grown tree in
your 'clear cut' lot?....or do you wait twenty years?
Don't get me started...don't EVEN get me started.

The people continue raping the land for McMansions in my hood here in Dallas. My neighbor cut down two 50+ year old American Elm trees just inside his property line to my west for a four car garage to go with his 6,500+ sq. ft. monster on a half acre lot, that no one here has on an interior lot. These beauties shaded my house from the western sun. I read him the riot act thinking he was the builder...whoops, I knew his wife from son's school, but not him. He ended up calling me and offered me $5,000 to replant trees on that side. I spent $4,000 on a red oak and three river birches and sent him the bill...he paid it. He went on to plant Bradford Pears

on his side...which are stunting the red oak. He is a criminal and a selfish sob. :angry:
kingfishn...you just get it and I applaud you.
damm...can't sleep, but that felt GOOD!
