Turns out we do have one, but the lowest branches are now too high. We won’t use it while on a ladder, because that part of the yard is very sloped. Think sledding hill. When we had our trees taken down, I should’ve asked for a quote to include trimming some of the branches from other trees. Alas, that will wait for another time.
Trees are so lovely — up to a point. We have townhome hell, where developers buy a train carload of burlapped saplings and stick them in the ground without regard to where the cable or water and sewer pipes run to the house or where the water meters sit near the sidewalk. Within a couple of years, they are ginormous and you have roots tearing up sidewalks, pushing underground pipes until they spring a leak and dumping massive amounts of leaves in the yards and especially rain gutters because they looked nice planted too near the houses when they were little. HOA won’t let you remove them without replacing them with something equally threatening. To quote Scarlett O’Hara, “As God is my witness, I’ll nevah buy in an HOA again!”