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Monday and other things
Jul. 13th, 2009 06:42 amDecent night's sleep, but still tired. Part of it is due to book hangover. But I also trimmed bushes yesterday, and while this isn't usually considered a particularly tiring activity...I guess it is when I do it.
Three shrubs in the backyard--a spirea and two hollies--badly needed trimming. The spirea grows like a weed, and was simply overgrown. The hollies proved more complicated. They sit right under the gutters, so they get dripped on in the winter when snow melts off the roof. Then that melt freezes, and kills branches. In addition, the things had done what older evergreens tend to do in that even though they looked full, the middles had become overgrown tangles of bare branches that required a lot of thinning. So now, instead of two boxy hollies, I have two skeletal if-I'm-lucky-they'll-fill-out-and-do-the-bonsai-thing hollies. I expect it will work. Evergreens are pretty forgiving when it comes to hackage.
Anyway, as a consequence of all the bending and crouching and clipping with the BIG clippers, legs and back are stiff and right arm feels weird from bicep to thumb. By weird, I mean cramping. This is fun, and a great way to start the week.
Tonight's excitement will consist of laundry, because clean underwear is important. Not to mention, well, clean.
Three shrubs in the backyard--a spirea and two hollies--badly needed trimming. The spirea grows like a weed, and was simply overgrown. The hollies proved more complicated. They sit right under the gutters, so they get dripped on in the winter when snow melts off the roof. Then that melt freezes, and kills branches. In addition, the things had done what older evergreens tend to do in that even though they looked full, the middles had become overgrown tangles of bare branches that required a lot of thinning. So now, instead of two boxy hollies, I have two skeletal if-I'm-lucky-they'll-fill-out-and-do-the-bonsai-thing hollies. I expect it will work. Evergreens are pretty forgiving when it comes to hackage.
Anyway, as a consequence of all the bending and crouching and clipping with the BIG clippers, legs and back are stiff and right arm feels weird from bicep to thumb. By weird, I mean cramping. This is fun, and a great way to start the week.
Tonight's excitement will consist of laundry, because clean underwear is important. Not to mention, well, clean.
