#9 Its hot outside, but you cant fill up the pool yet.
#8 Kids don't want to go outside to play.
#7 Snow in June.
#6 The neighbors dislike you ( or at least your trees) for a few weeks every spring.#5 DH gets tired of cleaning up the yard.
#4 You have to stop mowing to clean the air filter more often than you have to empty the grass out of the bag. (These pictures are actually pretty mild from what we are used to because of all the rain we have had)
#3 Cotton gets it your eyes, and you always feel like you have an eyelash in your eye.#2 Cotton gets in your nose every time you breathe in, leaving you with a constant tickle in your nose
and the #1 reason to not plant cottonwood trees in your yard. . .
The cotton doesn't taste anything like cotton candy!
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You are darling! Wouldn't that be so cool if it really was cotton candy! And pink! You would be the coolest house on the block. I think you should figure out a good use for the stuff and sell it. You could get rich! (You figure out how! I'm not that smart!:))
Last summer we were driving around DH's old neighborhood and saw a guy outside with his wet/dry vac sucking up all of the cotton.
You make me laugh.
Several years ago all the neighbor kids collected as much cotton as they could and spent the entire summer picking all the seeds and shells out of it so they could make pillows. Only to have their moms throw it away as soon s they went back to school.The moms were glad to have it out of their houses by then. And we actually do use the shop vac to clean it up, as well as the vac attatchment on the blower. both work well but get plugged easily because of how much there is. I like it best when it gets really hot and all the cotton pops open in one or two days. Then we have a big rain storm with alot of wind. Thats the fastest way to deal with it.
My nose does not miss these trees!
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