Cankerworms, DST, and the One Week Sale
Don't Forget to Band your Trees!Have you ever driven around Charlotte and wondered what was with all of those big bands around the trees? Here in th
e Queen city we are plagued with cankerworms. Maybe not quite as bad as Moses to Pharaoh kind of plague, but I suspect it might be close in our worst years. A couple of years ago it was particularly bad and since then the city and neighborhood associations have made a very intentional effort to battle these little pests. This time of year (after the first freeze) the wingless females being their trek up the trees where they will lay their eggs. And come spring those eggs will hatch and the pesky cankworms. First they will begin to eat the leaves of your trees and can do some serious damage (I almost lost a pin oak and a young dogwood to them a couple of years ago) and then they will descend with their pesky silk all over your house and yard. The only effective way to combat this is to prevent the wingless female from ever getting up your tree. Hence the sticky tree bands. And it looks like we might get our first freeze this week. So, if you haven't banded your trees already you should probably consider doing so by this weekend or soon thereafter. You can purchase supplies at your local nursery.Daylight Saving Time
Don't forget to change your clocks this weekend. If you show up to church this Sunday morning and no one else is there then you have squandered your one opportunity this year for a free hour of extra sleep. So, go out to breakfast and come back in an hour. Did you ever wonder why exactly we have DST? I did as I was writing this and wikipedia has a few interesting things to say about it.
One Week Sale Update
We began our marketing last night and have had two responses already! We should have a good idea by Friday night, based on the number of responses, if the plan will work or not. In case you or anybody you know is interested here are some of the details:
Near Northlake Mall.
3BR, 2.5BA, 1 car garage. Good condition.
$74,500 or highest reasonable offer.
Open House on Sat 10a - 4p and Mon 11a - 6p.
Home WILL be sold on Monday to highest reasonable offer.
You or any of your friends can contact Matthew Tringali for more information about this sale.
Matthew Tringali
Broker/REALTOR
704.517.3906
matthew@kristinedearmon.com
Comments
There have been no comments made on this article. Why not be the first and add your own comment using the form below.
Leave a comment
Please complete the form below to submit a comment on this article. A valid email address is required to submit a comment though it will not be displayed on the site.
HTML has been disabled but if you wish to add any hyperlinks or text formatting you can use any of the following codes: [B]bold text[/B], [I]italic text[/I], [U]underlined text[/U], [S]
strike through text[/S], [URL]http://www.yourlink.com[/URL], [URL=http//www.yourlink.com]your text[/URL]