Last week, the San Jose Water Company issued its formal permit for us to move WP668 into
our backyard sometime during the next year. Hooray! We are now waiting for the San
Jose city planning department hearing and then permit.
We are also waiting for the leaves to drop on our two mature ash trees so that they
can be pruned. We want to cut back the trees before lifting in the caboose so as to
damage as little as possible. We last had the ash trees’ canopy trimmed (which
the arborist called “lifting their skirts”) two or three years ago. The ash near
our back door in particular has been very happy about our removing the brick patio
which was over its root system: its canopy has grown about 1/3 larger since it was
last pruned. We think the ashes were planted when the house was built, so they
are about 80 years old. They had a very bad pruning about 10 years ago (before we
bought the house) but they have mostly recovered and are very handsome now.
Here is a current picture of WP668 (with its new roof):
Image by Katy Dickinson (Copyright 2006)
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