We have been having some really weird weather lately. In a 3 day period of time we have had buckets of rain, hail, a rainbow between the buckets of rain and today bright sunlight with winds so cold it cuts through your winter coats. I am wondering if the good lord is trying to tell us something, or if mother nature is just mad at everyone cutting down her trees.
I told someone the people that own the property I rent are afraid of anything green. They chopped down like 10 trees and I do not even remember how many bushes in the past 20 years. When 2 of the trees were took down I wanted to cry. One of them was shade for the picnic tables near the playground on the ball field. The other was a huge beautiful massive shade tree across the ball field. I would wager to guess that tree was probably at least a hundred years old if not older. It has wide spread branches covered in lush leaves. Every summer that tree made a nice place for the kids to sit and rest when they were done playing on the playground which by the way stands in full sunlight all day long. I got to tell you it had to be a man that decided how to lay this playground out. It has a very large sliding board ( that I myself have been down a couple times when I was cleaning and waxing it). The guys that put the playground in thought it would be a good idea to turn this long metal slide facing the evening sun. That means from noon till sometimes as late as 7 pm the business side of this slide is laying in full on sun light. Does anyone have a clue how hot that thing gets by about 2 pm? And they wonder why the kids do not play on it much. We were trying to give the kids something to do not burn their legs off. I think they should build a canapé over top that slide. It would not have to be anything special just 4 pillars and a roof to block the sun off the slide part. Although I am not 100% sure that would be the best idea either with no sun hitting it at all it could get quite cold on a breezy day. The best thing all around would have if they faced it the other way so that the morning sun would have hit the slide part and the later in the day it got the more shade would be cased on it by the slide itself.
The planners of these things never go out and take a look at the area BEFORE they come up with the plans. Just like the plan they had to put a high rise for sr citizens on the other side of the ball field right in the line of the setting sun. I was at the planning meeting and I said to the guy, Are you nuts? He was like why? I said come with me and I took him to a window that faced where he wanted to put the high rise. I said to him look at that. I said the place you want to put this high rise is directly in the line of the setting sun. He was like so? I was like do you realize if you put that high rise there all these smaller houses you plan to put to the east of that dang thing are not going to get any evening or late afternoon sun at all which will make their heating bills higher in the winter? How is that fair to them? I suggested instead that he put his high-rise in either the southern or northern portions of the property so as to block some of the winds that blow so wickedly across the development and allow all the sun light to fall where it is supposed to. He said he would take some notes on it and talk to the developers. Well the high rise did not go up there the new plan is to put it in the south west portion of the property. IF THEY EVER DO. LOL
I am loving all the sun I just wish the winds were not so cold and harsh. Which again brings us back to the cutting down of trees around here. Every time they cut down another tree the winds get worse. I am just glad it is not snow. lol
