Yup, that is what I did with Paw that morning — yard work and happily so as I held the ladder steady for him while he reached precariously overhead to prune the branches of fruit trees from our backyard.
Just when I thought I would recover from the three day fun of putting up X-mass lights — both inside and outside our home over that weekend, I ended up working outdoors again, only with animated objects, like our fruit trees.
This time and for the first time I handle Paw’s mini-machete, or simply a long knife. I actually found the strength to do deep knee bends, pick up the branches which fells to the ground of ginger rocks below and proceeded to whack away at the branches, making them smaller than his 2 feet suggestion by the waste company for pickup on Friday’s schedule.
Normally, we are not allowed to ‘dump’ our yard trimmings onto the road no more than 24 hours prior to pick-up but the old man wanted get the job done. And we did without Maw in the way as she busied herself to cooking our lunch meal.
I truly enjoy gardening, as long as someone else is there to do some harmless bickering. I used the leaf blower while he sort of worked on the second tree. The old leaves, branches and other debris were blown to their usual spot in the ditch near the corner of the fence.
Then I went to work on the front yard and blew both dust from the street and sidewalk, eucalyptus leaves onto our small pile of no more than 4 feet in height. After feeding on some chicken soup, I took my quick shower and blogged as usual.
Yup, I could do yardwork because I do NOT have to worry about my nails being broken. If y’all see acrylic nails on any of those witches, it means they are too proud to get their pristine fingers and hands all dirty or their skins are too sensitive for hard work.
After all these years of not hearing the old man complain of not receiving help from his ungrateful children, I now realize how important teamwork is: It gets the job done faster, too. And plus, he gets to rest earlier instead of too far into the night.
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