As far as specific complaints or who is getting hurt, I have no idea. I have not been able to get anything specific out of the town manager. No opportunity for fixing these unknown issues. And the main issue appears to be the quantity of the complaints. Two or three people complaining again and again about something doesn’t matter if the something is legal.
My answer last year was prove it, and this year they videoed my bees going to the neighbor’s pool. And I’m like, and?
I am sure if I asked them to move they would have. I think it was designed to just put me on the back foot.
Call a lawyer. I’m very serious here.
I have seen a lot of stories about people doing this sort of crap and they are on the hook for the replacement cost of the trees - which could run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars for trees that have 3ft stumps.
Also, I third the suggestion of recording everything.
Every so often stories about this pop up on reddit. Reddit loves tree law and everyone comes out of the woodwork with their tree law stories. Tree law can be (as you’ve pointed out) very expensive for the offender because large old-growth trees can’t just be replaced with a quick trip to the nursery.
This is great. A hive just swarmed onto the dumpster behind the elementary school. This is beyond range of my hives, half a mile away and on the opposite side of the building from my hives. Ammunition for the town has bees deal with it argument.
In my letter to the town manager I suggested that if my neighbors hadn’t illegally cut the screening trees down they wouldn’t have had as big of a problem. I don’t care about the trees, they are something to use to make my point, and as a possible response.
Oh, my god. I almost lost my mind.
I needed to prepare a report on an environment that hasn’t been touched by human hands in probably 5 years.
I had to remote in through 2 different environments and 6 layers of VMs and jump servers, each with it’s own distinct layer of security. I felt like I was in Inception.
“We have to go deeper.”
I made it through without having to draw out a map of the connections in my own cerebral fluid, of which there is plenty now from banging my head against the desk.
Moving the file back was the trickiest part due to departmental restrictions on data transfer.
I am needing a beer+1. Almost lunchtime.
Restaurants that put a giant container of ketchup on the table that you can use freely, but charge you $2 for a small amount of mayonnaise (that isn’t even mayonnaise).
Maybe I need to make a restaurant go-bag. A couple of slices of cheese, a small bottle of mayo, some Maldon salt, a bit of Dijon, some real parmigiano reggiano. I never really know what I’m going to need, but I know I can’t trust a restaurant to have what I want.
Oh, god. Could that be my new product line? The legitimate foodie box? What would it look like? An aluminum worker’s lunchbox? That way you could have a couple of reusable containers for your leftovers instead of getting a styrofoam box.
Oh, this needs a good think.
