Okay, call it Virginia Creeper or Creeping Jenny, but it's strangling my Mormon Plum tree and tugging on the phone line. I don't care much about the phone line since no one in the main house has a land line, but I do care about the plum tree. I have been working on getting as much of it cut from it's source and pulled out of the tree. But still it's attached so high up in the tree, I'll need a much higher ladder or a cherry picker to get it all out.I climbed the ladder leaning against the trunk and did battle with the biggest strands of it choking some limbs to death. I removed a lot of dead tree along with some mighty long ropes of vine. And in the center of the tree, as I stood on the top rung of the ladder I was torn to shreds by the thicket of deadwood at the center. I have wounds to prove that this was a battle royal. The vine won this round, but I'm far from done.
4 comments:
Hire yourself a strapping hard bodied young man to do that work and you lay back and watch while he does it.
Dr Von Monkerstein, that sounds really lovely, but I'm strapped for cash. And no strapping young men are offering to help me.
Oh, Sweetie! That looks so painful. I wish I were there to kiss all Your boo-boos. Be careful out there, Loved One.
Find where the stuff is coming out of the ground and cut it there -- it'll look ugly as it's dying, but at least it'll stop spreading and you won't be risking life and limb in a tree.
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