Carol's Pond

  Carol’s Dragonfly Ranch Home of Carol’s Pond January 8, 2026 Happy New Year everyone. For January, the weather has been great, but we do need rain desperately. December was an expensive month, I had 3 trees removed and my driveway, torn out and replaced. Two of the trees were very large pine trees that I hated to see go, but I think one was on its way out. But the two of them they had destroyed over 25 feet of my drive. The other tree was a Bradford Pear. When blooming they are very pretty, but they are an invasive species and should be removed. From its location, it too was going to impact a different section of the drive, so out it went. Today was the first day I could drive on the new concrete. I really liked the slogan the concrete company has; “ If you don’t use concrete, it is your own asphalt”. This same company removed some pavers and poured a small slab for me a couple of years ago. Pavers may look good, but in a wheelch...