Comments | bejart: Oh being a grown up

bejart

Oh being a grown up

Jul 19, 2010 14:23

It’s tree-trimming day here at The Lodge. I know it needs to be done, but for some reason it just breaks my heart. The only thing that makes it marginally okay is knowing that it’s my love that does all the clean up - so I say I’m doing it for him. And I know that laurel tree (that’s supposed to be a shrub but grew up into a gigantic thing) isn’t ( Read more... )

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glass_symbol July 19 2010, 21:39:37 UTC

Just think of it as giving them a bit of a haircut. :)

bejart July 19 2010, 22:02:51 UTC

even if it is an ugly haircut .... they'll live i know.

glass_symbol July 19 2010, 22:34:55 UTC

yes, we've alllll lived through bad haircuts. :)

Hope y'all are having some spectacular weather up there... this time of year always makes me want to plan a trip to Seattle.

bejart July 20 2010, 16:33:38 UTC

well you are missing nothing this year. I still have the heat on!!! we have barely cracked 70 all summer. June was so cold I was still wearing my winter sweaters. thank god I go to california once a month to get a bit of sun.

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penantes July 20 2010, 02:14:59 UTC

Laurel is extremely hardy. It will grow back bigger and badder...just saying.

bejart July 20 2010, 16:34:32 UTC

yeah - the dang thing is really a weed disguised as a tree. probably less than a year to be full again.

catssu July 20 2010, 03:43:58 UTC

when she said they cut it back a lot... i thought good. when i got
home even i was surprised at how much they topped it. whoa! and
yes... it will be growing crazee soon enough. now we can see how much
more we got to do around the lodge. lots and lots of weeding to get
done and trimming the little guys too.

weather is really nice now Kyle... lucky lucky us.

bejart July 20 2010, 16:35:37 UTC

seeeeee?!?!?!? told ya it was a lot and those guys thought i was crazy for not letting them cut another 5-10 feet off.

huskyone July 20 2010, 19:39:42 UTC

Bud, you wouldn't want me trimming your trees. I borrowed a chainsaw and Sandy had to take it away from me in fear of me decimating the whole yard. But honestly, pruning is good for things. I used to take the rhodies down almost to the ground about every three years and they thrived!

quanyin25 July 20 2010, 21:28:07 UTC

I just had a similar conversation with my neighbor. The city is responsible for trimming the giant trees on our city street parkways, and she was fretting about them doing a bad job. She instead leaned out a third story window of the condo building next to me to trim branches too close to the building.

I think you must be kindred spirits. :)

bejart July 21 2010, 00:07:30 UTC

i would have done the same thing!