Friday, July 13, 2007

Good Idea/Bad Idea

Today, Friday the 13th, 2007, will find me pruning my parent's Chinese elms. This activity involves several ladders, sharp implements and me dangling anywhere from 5-20 feet in the air while stretching to lop off offending boughs. I'm thinking about bringing along a couple mirrors and throwing them down to the concrete below just to make a propper job of it.

4 comments:

Deadmanshonda said...

Awesome! Sooo funny....

You are def screwed my friend. Def. ;)

Micah said...

The Carnage Report:

Cubic Feet of Branches Pruned: Soooo many
Minor Scrapes/Abrasions: 2
Number of Bail-outs From Top Rung of 10' Ladder: 1
Number of Sprinklers Surviving: 5 ish (of 20ish)

All in all, a pretty successful day of cursed pruning . . .

James said...

Haha, what happened to the sprinklers?

Micah said...

Well, I was ankle deep in ground cover moving a 10' ladder about hither, thither and yon. That coupled with moderate dehydration and the fact that I seldom look where I am going spelled certain doom for a majority of the ill-placed sprinkler risers.

I patched em all up, though. No worries.