Pruning and yard work

[den]

Dad bashed on the door of the garage at 8am to wake me (since I am a poor student living on government subsidies, Mum and dad's garage has been converted into a room for me) and shouted "I've pruned some trees. Can you cut the branches into smaller sizes so we can get rid of them?"

Oh no. Dad pruned.

Every time he decides to prune the trees he grabs the saw and prunes and prunes and fucking prunes the trees. When we lived on the farm he pruned the apple trees and we didn't get any apples for 2 years. So now, when Dad announces that he will prune the trees, Mum hides the saws until the feeling passes.

So this morning the yard looked like it had been hit by a cyclone. There were branches everywhere. I grabbed the saw and spent time In The Yard. Outside. In The Sun. Doing Gardening. Now all the large branches are cut into small lumps and all the long branches have been turned into short branches.

Who needs a sim-house when you can do the real thing?

Comments

LOL

[tatterdemalion.livejournal.com]

Your father sounds exactly like my father, the last time he pruned he cut them back so far that mum had to get our local "jim" in to dig the stumps out of the ground, he'd cut them back so far that he'essentially ring barked them and they would have died.

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[djedhi.livejournal.com]

sounds like my dad too. oh no.. when i grow up am i going to devestate trees or does that only happen when you have children?

[wabbitcalif.livejournal.com]

Sounds like your mum didn't get the early warning alarm on your dad's pruning this year, eh? Too bad..

Hopefully, your trees will survive!

[dancinglights.livejournal.com]

heh. mine too. He's stopped altogether now (after much threatening from the rest of the household), which is good for the few trees and bushes we've got left.