Dear Florida

[Cleo]

Took me about 15 years to grow those trees and the really shaded my house so they will be very much missed. Before the trees it was always very hard to get that side of the house cool in the summer afternoon. The fact that the addition which is my bedroom was built with a flat roof didn't help. I am putting in lots of insulation when the ceiling is replaced.

I'm having the very large ficus that is in my backyard trimmed way back so that it hopefully will not fall on the other side of my house in the next storm.

I also have some oaks and a few more olive trees but they seem to do well in storms so I'm just having the broken branches trimmed.