Forsythia is lovely for a week or two each year. The rest of
the time, they make you wonder why you planted them. We’ve had three enormous forsythia
bushes since we bought this house, hiding an electrical box with a sign saying nothing
should be planted within eight feet. We’ve been trying to remove the bushes for
years, but they just kept coming back. John was pulling the last of the roots
out a few weeks ago, and knocked out our phone and Internet. I’m sure he’d have
called the Blue Stakes 811 hotline, if he’d thought of what he was doing as
digging. It’s what you do: call BEFORE you dig. Someone in the Denver area last
month didn’t think to call either, and accidentally cut through an underground
fiber line. The damage caused outages to several customers, including the
Colorado 811 website. I must have a twisted sense of humor, because I’m still
giggling about this one. Sue me.
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