We got a letter from the HOA the other day warning us to take care of mistletoe in our trees. I'm thinking, mistletoe?! Before we got the letter, I'd only ever heard of that as in "kissing under the mistletoe". A decoration. But nooooo... it's a parasite in trees!! There are huge like balls of it way up in the top of the trees in our front yard. We don't look way up there so we had never even seen it, let alone know what it was. H climbed up on the roof today with a long tree saw thingie and cut off a few branches that had it on them, ones he could reach anyway. When he got done I used the loppers and cut the branches into smaller pieces so I could stuff the whole mess down into our garbage can. I filled it up completely. And there's still a bunch of it that he can't reach so we're going to have to hire a tree company to come out and get rid of the rest of it. Oh well, at least you can tell that we started working on it, so the HOA won't keep getting on our case. There's a ton of 'tree debris' in our yard again now, so they'll get on our case about that if we don't clean that up too. I think we're going to need to have a landscape company or something come out and remove all the gravel and tree debris down to just the plain dirt, and then put new gravel in. I wonder how much all of this is going to cost.