Most of yesterday afternoon, I was serenaded by the sound of chainsaws just outside the house. A city work crew has been busily cutting down trees on the property next door to us (a small apartment block).
The work is being done in preparation for a widening of the main road onto which our little cul-de-sac opens. The part that runs past the apartment building is set to have new sidewalks and a new retaining wall built. These are both good things, but we hadn't appreciated just how many trees would need to come down before the work could get started. Fortunately, nothing on our own property was touched, but it was still a little close for comfort - especially as one of the best things about our property is the number of mature trees which surround it (and shield us from the traffic in the roundabout, just a few hundred metres away).
I tell you, if I were a resident in the apartments next door, I'd be pretty pissed off right now to find that my once-leafy view had disappeared!
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