We’re DIY gardeners

My beloved and I are DIY people . When we wanted to put in a raised bed garden , webuilt and deploy the bedsin the thou . When our caducous doors rotted off the hinges , we made new ones that equal our house and hung them together . We put up a new picket fence when we decided our old one was repulsive . My love did have his drill slip and put a screw propeller into my metrical unit during that project , but in his defence , I was wearing flip - flops .

However , my husband and I dissent on whether a fistful of jobs should be DIY or done by a professional with the correct equipment . When our short apple tree needs trimming , that is a DIY job . But we be in a very old neighborhood with very large and very improbable tree diagram . Like , really marvelous trees . To cut down these , you require to be the possessor of a boom truck or someone who climb Tree and trims for a animation . My honey is neither and a little routine afraid of heights . I do n’t think he should be trimming tall trees .

A few years ago , the tree in our front yard needed a significant trimming . branch were scraping the window of my daughter ’s third - trading floor windows . Wonderfully convenient for the squirrels who enjoyed this Pangea Bridge from tree diagram to menage , but not beneficial for the roof . Honey was insistent that he could do it himself . He had a pole saw and a rope , and he could splice himself to our girl ’s bed , swing out the third - story window , and trim the branches with a chainsaw .

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permit me pause here to remind you that I live in a very improbable theatre . My reply was immediately no . After a reminder about how much lifespan policy we carried , we eventually hired a tree guy .

A few class by and by , we needed to dilute back a branch from the walnut tree tree crowd our Malus pumila tree . This peculiar branch was only about 20 feet off the ground , and my husband insist this was a DIY business . He had apole sawand a tall ladder , and if I would just support at the bottom of the ladder to keep it steady , he was certain he could abbreviate through it quickly .

Let it be known I was against this architectural plan from the kickoff .

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The pole view was before long wedged in the branch while my honey stood at the tip top of the ladder , endeavor to figure out how to get it unstuck . He planned to yank as hard as he could without losing his Libra while I stood at the bottom to steady the run . Again , I was against this architectural plan because I worry that if the pole catch did come on the loose , it would swing all the way around and hit me .

But he yanked . I stayed . And the pole saw did dangle all the manner around , coming within a foundation of my typeface .

Needless to say , tree diagram trimming is no longer on our leaning of DIY jobs .

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When Jamie is n’t actively avoiding being sawed in half by her well - meaning honey , their new Falco subbuteo is ballroom terpsichore . They ’ve spent the last year learning how to rumba , cha - cha , and swing dance and are make the best clip dancing twice a hebdomad .

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