My Neighbor Built a Balcony Over My Backyard While I Was Away So I Made Him Tear It Down

I put in some shade-tolerant groundcover along the fence line and let the maple do the rest, which it did, sending new growth out from the cut branches over the following seasons in the slow, indifferent way that trees respond to being trimmed. They don’t hold it against you. They just grow toward the available light.

Dave and I had our usual beer continue reading …