Thanks for reminding me of that. Now I have to go catch a beaver and train it to chew the trunk so it falls away from us.

Have both of them as well. One of the osage orange trees has a hollowed out section that a racoon lives in. Seen that bastard on the deck eating food the dog left behind.

I thought our two trees were silver maples and we have no problems like that at all. Maybe ours are some different variant or something. They just grow leaves and are generally pleasant.

I'm really bummed that they're getting old. The tree maintainers said that we'll have to consider taking them down in the next 5-10 years. Per htismaqe's comment, they're starting to get a little internal rot.

When we were new to our house we had to take down a pretty large catalpa tree because it was right next to our foundation. That hurt. The sweet gum article that I linked earlier also made a negative statement about catalpas, but I think they're gorgeous trees.

Haha you guys are great! She leaves us alone for the most part.

I was mistakenly calling her Wyoming for quite awhile. HELLO WYOMING as I waved. Then my wife reminded me that her name is Cheyenne.

Fortunately, we have so many opossums that come up to eat the cat food outside that we don't have much left for the raccoons.

These trees lived close to you?

'bout tree miles away.

Sycamore trees suck. The first house my wife and I bought together had about a 50 foot Sycamore tree in the backyard. I spent every summer weekend picking up bark, twigs and branches from that piece of shit and then in the fall the amount of leaves it dropped were ridiculous.

The way my street is all the leaves from that sycamore end up in my yard and is a total pia to clean them up. The amount and the size of leaves is insane.

Is it an HOA violation? If so, narc them out.

Yep. It's really really soft wood and sheds in a light breeze.

You should get yourself a bunch of Palo Verde trees. Yellow snow. I hate them and always have them removed from a new place.

That’s what she said.

No HOA. Have to report to city.

I am probably just going to plant some bushes so I don't have to look at it.

I hate neighbors.

Call the city on them and have the city inspector come out on a code violation. I know our city inspector by name. I also work part time for the city golf course, so we see each other once in a while.