! That has been the last two years!*off topic continues*
That is exactly what I was thinking, BWeaves! All these trees right next to the house, when the lot is large enough that they could have been planted further back...why?! The houses on our street were all were built from around 1959-1962 and many of those trees are now very tall.
Then just before Thanksgiving my H had the week from Hades. It began with his seeing flashing lights...I have had this and know it could be the retina detaching, as it was for his father. (Or just the vitreous detaching, as in my case.) So he had to see an eye specialist on an emergency basis in case he needed laser surgery to preserve his vision. (Thankfully he did not.)
The same week he developed a toothache and needed a root canal. On the way to that appointment, we stopped at Walmart to pick up his antibiotics. While there he twisted his knee (a re-injury) and tore his meniscus! Good thing I had a cane in the trunk. I drove him to orthopedic urgent care the next day.
The man canceled his follow-up appointment for the knee, not wanting an MRI. So of course now he is not sleeping well at night...knee pain. I suggested he reschedule the ortho...we'll see.
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Believe me I understand the Health challenges cutting into the pearl budget
Can't say the same about the trees now here in the City, but when I was much younger back in the south I always marveled why the trees were so close to the house when there was enough yard to create wind breaks and shading etc without risking damage from falling branches. Thinking back on it basically every relative that comes to mind had trees really close to the house (which is how we could sneak in and out of the house...sorry mom).
Back on topic...I did get really teeny tiny akoya earrings even smaller than PP normal 3.5-4mm for holiday gifts, but now that I've seen them I wished they offer the teeny tiny akoya in "black" or even cwfp for that matter. I've added Ursula for size comparisons
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Love the Edison GSS pairing too, but I agree with you I like then best on their own or with those big ripples. Enjoy!!!
I'm loving everyone's photos!
A digression from the main topic...feel free to skip this post.
No buys for me this time around...I had to pay a tree removal service $$$$ Monday to remove 3 trees in our front yard that threatened our roof and our power lines. I was particularly sad to have to lose the birch tree, which we've enjoyed for the past 24 years, but it was diseased and only a matter of time.... Some of our neighbors voiced their dismay at seeing it cut down. Odd, one doesn't think that neighbors care about one's trees. But they walk their dogs past our house every day and it was part of their neighborhood. Trees move us in a deep way.
A few years ago we hired this same company to remove 3 other tall trees in our back and side yard, for the same reason-- they loomed over our roof and our neighbor's driveway. I imagined their cars being wrecked, if a huge branch broke off our silver maple, which is a brittle tree. (When I was a child, our neighbor's tree demolished the roof of our two car garage.) Two weeks after we had those trees removed, a microburst came through the town, doing a lot of damage. We dodged a bullet that time!
Anyway, please keep the photos coming!
