Mormon-looking Lorax Haters

Here's a tip:

If three guys sporting haircuts and ties show up on your doorstep, and they don't ask you if you've accepted Jesus Christ as your personal lord and savior, then chances are you're going to lose some trees.

At least, that's what happened to us.

We knew when we moved in that only part of the wooded area behind our home was a buffer, and that someday development would take a lot of the trees down. Well, the men in ties were the Silver Surfer to progress's Galactus (super geek reference!)

As the philosopher once said, "And the trees are all kept equal / by hatchet, axe. . . . aaaaaaand saw!" (super geek reference number two!)

It could be worse: There is a forty foot tree-buffer preserve that they can't touch. Also, they are not building a meat packing plant. (Could be better: They are not building a joint women's prison / car-wash.)

(That would be a great movie.)

(Tarantino, maybe.)

What are they building? In our backyard?

Here's a hint: after thirteen years of delivering kids to various daycares, the last year of which required Mother or I to leave work every day to drive Youngest twenty minutes away, we are now three weeks away from never ever needing a daycare again.

Guess what they're building in our backyard?

I'm not complaining. We'll still have a nice yard. We'll still have some trees. And the new daycare will add a lot of traffic, but not an additional driveway, because it will share the driveway with the nursing home that is already there. Between the two of them, it'll be like bookends to the life cycle. And the little kids sure will get a kick out of all the emergency vehicles!