What do you think of the title? My wife says I need a more positive attitude so I am trying. Actually, this is typically not the way things go.
For years, many, many years in fact, I have been plagued by the row of crab apple trees lining our street. These trees are planted on the berm. I never heard of this word before I came to North Dakota either – it is the area in your front yard between the sidewalk and the street. The city seems to own this land, but you have to take care of it. So, if they decide to plant some stupid tree such as the crab apple that has a pretty bloom for a couple of days in the spring and then is good for nothing the rest of the year except leaving this residue of rotting small apples that get smushed and caught in the cleats of your boots so you bring them into the house and then get yelled at, you can do nothing about it. (with apologies to any composition instructor or editor I have ever had)
I guess thinking about it these trees have had an occasional redeeming quality. They do play a prominent role in my recent and popular video short – “A North Dakota Blizzard”.
Actually these trees were not removed because the city realized that crab apples are a stupid and messy tree and an inconvenience to any home owner forced to deal with them. The city decided it had to dig up my front yard to replace some underground pipes and the trees happen to be in the way.
Hey – the stump of that tree seems to contain an image of someone or something. Now, I am going to have to spend the rest of the morning figuring out who or what that is. Maybe this is a sign of some kind. I have decided that it is a map of the Big Island. I am supposed to leave North Dakota and move to Hawaii!!
See, sometimes your problems simply disappear.