Soccer Dad

Trying for a Darwin

This past Sunday was garden day. One of our tasks was to take down our old rusted swingset. My children were great helping out. Among other things they found a bunch of cicadas getting ready to come to the surface. We also discovered that a tree root had insinuated itself into one of the legs of the swingset. Well we got it out and my wife found someone to haul it away today.
My biggest task was to prune tree limbs away from the house. With the coming of the warm weather we've been seeing more carpenter inside the house. My wife thought that they were getting onto (and then into) the house off of the branches touching the house. So I borrowed a pruner on a pole from a neighbor. As I lopped up some of those high branches, unsure of where they were to fall, I kept on envisioning myself as an eventual Darwin award winner if a large enough branch would find its mark. Fortunately, I exercised enough care (and in one case moved fast enough) that needn't have worried.

Posted by SoccerDad at April 20, 2004 5:17 AM