# Show us Something Cool About Your Place **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 26, 2025, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-something-cool-about-your-place/1018832 "2025-05-26T23:45:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 80
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-something-cool-about-your-place/1018832/80 "2025-06-04T13:11:05Z")
19 years ago I posted this: > [@A sterling testament to my laziness -- care to share your own?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sterling-testament-to-my-laziness-care-to-share-your-own/367388): > > When we bought our house several years ago, there was a wood pile out back that we never used – the wood looked a bit dodgy, so I planned on tossing it out some day rather than bring it inside for the fire. I was out trimming bushes today and I noticed this: [Testament to my laziness](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v186/minor7flat5/laziness.jpg) Yes. That’s a mulberry tree, 4-6" at the base, growing up and around the offending wood pile. It isn’t exactly a sapling. [Here’s the tree](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v186/minor7flat5/laziness2.jpg) How embarrassing. Care to share your own laziness? The links are long dead (Photobucket…) so here is one of the original photos: [![](https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-hgxxQSv/0/NG4bWKJ3L9sTVGh2Vq9tPVX9nLtLTGCN5TBKLQdtD/O/i-hgxxQSv.jpg) ](https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-hgxxQSv/0/NG4bWKJ3L9sTVGh2Vq9tPVX9nLtLTGCN5TBKLQdtD/O/i-hgxxQSv.jpg) There was also another small mulberry tree growing behind the firewood, just to the left of the photo. The firewood is long gone and life has moved on. Here is what that second mulberry tree looks like today: [![](https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-BGhf6rr/0/KWPqZDG2zTwNrXZ8wHnQ568wBTZVH4d3NxSdNk9b9/4K/i-BGhf6rr-4K.jpg) ](https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-BGhf6rr/0/KWPqZDG2zTwNrXZ8wHnQ568wBTZVH4d3NxSdNk9b9/4K/i-BGhf6rr-4K.jpg) Note the fence embedded in the tree trunk! [![](https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-WzDSrHR/0/LJMLB2fmLjGFdXRrj28Std4Kw7NvSckVXGXbnxFdS/X5/i-WzDSrHR-X5.jpg) ](https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-WzDSrHR/0/LJMLB2fmLjGFdXRrj28Std4Kw7NvSckVXGXbnxFdS/X5/i-WzDSrHR-X5.jpg) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-something-cool-about-your-place/1018832)._