Out of time, out of glue

I want to begin by thanking everyone for your very kind and generous comments about my neighbor's tree yesterday. I also wanted to explain a bit about the house next door. However, you might want to see this post before reading further.


In response to your comments, first, as you can see from this photo, this was NOT a diseased tree, any more than mine is. Second, there is no root problem, because, although the water comes into our houses from the street, and the landlord put in a new water line last year, the sewer runs out the back, which sometimes DOES cause problems in my neighborhood, but since both the neighbor and I don't have trees in our back yards, that is also not a concern. And both trees are far enough from our houses, there is no problem with cracks to either foundation.

This is a rental, one where the landlord or renter didn't even bother mowing the yard all summer until last week. I can safely say, there will be no new tree planted, no careful consideration to new planting, and not even any landscaping, since whoever "mowed" the yard, also mowed down a very old rose bush that was located on the property line. They also "mowed" down the peonies, but I believe they will come back next year, as, hopefully will the irises that were all delineating the property line. I hope I covered all your concerns about the tree, and those of you who feared the worse, so do I. And it may be that the neighbors/landlord aren't even going to remove the base of the tree. I'll keep everyone updated as the rest of this story unfolds.

Unfortunately, the property isn't wide enough to support two trees on my property, as some of you suggested. I DO have some ornamental bushes, small evergreens, and a couple of ornamental pines around my house, but nothing that will ever compare to the tree the landlord removed next door.

BTW, years ago I told a friend that if anything ever happened to my tree and it had to be removed, I would want Gino Salerno, the world famous artist from Wichita who makes tree art, to create a sculpture out of the trunk, which I would leave in place.

However, I am here to make art, not rant, so I was off to insert a zipper into an altered book.


I was under a time constraint (sorry, I don't work as fast as some people and didn't even have time to prepare a Silent Sunday post), but I was prepared to create a zipper in my Houses Techniques AB. I had gathered all the background papers, the papers for the house, the zipper, and the tape. Or at least I thought I had the tape I needed.

I bought this tape at one of the craft stores here in town. I don't remember if it was Michael's or JoAnn's. I do know it was awhile back, since I wouldn't make a trip to either of these places in a hot car in this heat with no AC.


I realize this is a lousy photo, but this is the true width of the tape (between the two black marks I made). When I went to use it to hold down the zipper, this tape would barely hold two pages together, much less a zipper. So it's back to the drawing board. Or maybe I should say, it's back to looking for tape that will actually do the job. Sorry if you thought you were coming to see a completed zipper, because I would rather not make it, than have it fall apart after the first turn of the page, or zip of the zipper.

On a brighter note, I am sharing this DUD of a post with CED. Have a fun week, everyone.

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