{"id":947,"date":"2008-05-07T09:38:30","date_gmt":"2008-05-07T13:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/?p=947"},"modified":"2008-05-07T09:38:30","modified_gmt":"2008-05-07T13:38:30","slug":"i-love-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=947","title":{"rendered":"I love trees."},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my reasons for wanting to move from our new, bare, constructiony neighbourhood into a mature, well-established one was the trees.\u00a0 Or lack thereof.\u00a0 I despise looking around and seeing nothing but houses.\u00a0 It was way, way, awy worse in our last neighbourhood – townhouses as far as the eye could see – so this place was an improvement…but not by much.\u00a0\u00a0 They should plant the trees and grass 5 years before starting new construction so that once the houses are up, it already looks homey and green and lived in.<\/p>\n

I like green.\u00a0 I like the outdoors.\u00a0 I like feeling surrounded by nature, even when I’m in the city.\u00a0 So when buying our new house, I focused as much on the outside as I did on the inside.\u00a0 We had a list of requirements.\u00a0 One of them\u00a0was having trees, or some kind of greenery on our property other than grass and a wimpy, barely there baby tree.\u00a0 I wanted big.\u00a0 Full.\u00a0 Healthy.\u00a0 And I got it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Not only do I adore the new house on the inside, the outside is wonderful.\u00a0 A decent backyard, and a front yard shaded by a beautiful tree.\u00a0 It’s not exactly a swing on the branches kind of tree, but it’s taller than the house and very impressive.\u00a0 The backyard\u00a0was bare of trees, but it was something we had planned to work on once we moved in.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yesterday, as I was flipping through one of the free daily papers, I spotted a blurb at the top of one of the pages.\u00a0\u00a0 It said that Ottawans are invited to register for a free tree to plant on their property.\u00a0 One is available per household, to be picked up in the fall.\u00a0 You don’t have to ask me twice.\u00a0 I registered as soon as I got into the building.\u00a0 And then I told all my co-workers to register.\u00a0 And now I’m telling you (for those of you who live in Ottawa, or used to and still own property here).\u00a0<\/p>\n

What a fantastic idea.\u00a0 I’m so onboard with any program that\u00a0is in place\u00a0to further green up the city.\u00a0 And that’s exactly what this one is attempting to do.\u00a0 Their goal is to plant 100,000 trees between 2007 and 2010 to be on target to join the\u00a0Plant for the Planet: Billion Tree Campaign<\/a>,\u00a0a major worldwide tree planting campaign with the objective of planting at least one billion trees worldwide.<\/p>\n

So.\u00a0 Visit www.ottawa.ca\/TREE<\/a> and register for your free tree.\u00a0 You can choose a small one (that won’t grow over 10 metres) or a large one.\u00a0\u00a0It’s all on a first come, first served basis.\u00a0 So do it now.\u00a0 Now!\u00a0 Plant a tree.\u00a0 Then you can hug it all you want.\u00a0\u00a0 I plan to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my reasons for wanting to move from our new, bare, constructiony neighbourhood into a mature, well-established one was the trees.\u00a0 Or lack thereof.\u00a0 I despise looking around and seeing nothing but houses.\u00a0 It was way, way, awy worse in our last neighbourhood – townhouses as far as the eye could see – so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}