Sick Tree

Barb hates the big tree in our back yard.  It doesn’t give us any decent shade on our deck and it drops a lot of leaves and seeds on the deck beside the barbecue.  So Barb phoned the office to see about getting it cut down.  The park manager said that they would only pay to cut down dead trees.  A couple of days later she phoned and said that she had looked at the tree and it looked sick to her compared to the other trees in the neighbourhood.  She said a man would come around in a couple of days to look at it and give her a quote for taking it down and the park would pay.  A couple of days later the man came around and looked at the tree and said it wasn’t sick.  I guess the tree knew its life was in danger and shaped up.  It even gives us a little shade on the deck now.