If it's Fall already I want to know two things:1) why is it still 110F outside?and2) where the hell did the summer go?Back in April when I originally emailed the city to find out what was going on with our dug up lawn and driveway, I also asked them if their construction would result in the removal of our tree. Their orange lines sort of went through the tree and I was concerned. I was assured we would not have the tree removed.However... they removed my entire lawn up TO the tree, therefore removing most of its roots.

I'd been noticing quite a few leaves falling off the tree all dry and dead for a couple of weeks, however, I chalked that up the bunch of branches that had been broken by the machinery as they dug up the lawn, driveway and street. It wasn't a big deal. Sure we'd have to clip those broken branches at some point, but you couldn't really tell where most of them were due to the tree in full bloom.

It's been holding steady at about 45°C (111°F) all week. I kid you not. Heck the a/c in the bedroom still only cools that room off to 86°F. So this week more leaves were falling.Last night? The tree dumped about 80% of its leaves on our car, lawn, driveway, road, neighbour's driveway... etc. The tree? It is dead.Shawn is raking this morning. RAKING an ENTIRE AUTUMN's WORTH OF LEAVES on July 8! Good lord.So I emailed the city again this morning. I emailed back the woman I had been conversing with in April only because there's an email trail and she can refer back and see what I was talking about. I emailed at 9:34 this morning. And then I started to rant on here about the stupid city and the stupid tree and the stupid construction.And at 9:50 Shawn called me and said "did you call the city?" To which I replied, "No I just emailed though, why?" Because by 9:45 there was a guy there talking to Shawn about the tree and checking out the tree.Holy cow!

Our tree was checked out and we were told to wait a year. Right now it is not a fire hazard or any threat to safety. It's possible it will spring back to life next year, in the (ha!) spring. Once they re-sod the grass and we start to get rain again (hello, heatwave? Yeah, enough already!) it might come back to life. I don't know. But I have an email trail about this and if it's still dead next summer I shall remind the city of this construction and conversation because there is so way in heck that I'm going to pay for tree removal when the city is the one that caused it to die.Also - the streets will be paved NEXT week! Wooo!!In other news I am done work at 1:00 for an appointment this afternoon and then I am OFF for two full weeks. I am hoping the paving of the street will not take all 2 weeks and that the heat wave dies down.