Wednesday, June 07, 2023

Pruning and Cutting

We had a lilac bush that had gone off-kilter (or should I write, all catawampus?), partly due to broken branches due to that nasty but short-lived winter ice storm back in April. 

Sue asked our ex-sil if he would help us prune it. Sure enough, he and JJ came over and set to work.


Only a few days prior, I had noticed that the adjacent tree, a silk lilac, was rotting at the trunk. So, although we hadn't been expecting it, they cut that too — all of the way down in that case. Sue's collages tell much of the story.



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In other news, I think I have more or less figured out the lights-in-cars of which I posted yesterday. I think the sun is so dull that it is hardly lighting up the atmosphere, but it's central beams were enough to poke through and cause little spotlights.

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And . . . if you are reading this after 9AM, Wednesday, there is a good chance that I am already out of surgery, but the plan is to stay in overnight. Maybe I'll even post from the hospital bed tomorrow. We'll see about hospital wifi, however, as I don't have a phone plan that gives me a ton of cellular coverage.


19 comments:

  1. I hope that it all went well in surgery. I look forward to hearing about it in an upcoming post. :-)

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  2. Hope everything went well and here’s to a speedy recovery! 🤞👏

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  3. All good thoughts are with you, AC, that all went well with the surgical procedure, AC, and that you could get a good night's rest afterwards.

    Looks like grandson and ex-SIL made a good team in helping with the pruning chores.

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  4. Fabulous lilac trimmers they were! Careful to wear protective equipment too. So glad to know you're getting fixed up and will have relief from those problems. Looking forward to hearing how it went, and how many nurses you had to fend off from flirting with you! (When Sue was out of the room of course.)

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  5. Nice job! Good luck with the surgery and post-op care.

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  6. Good luck and I hope it all works well this time.

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  7. Hoping for the best from surgery! How wonderful that they came over and did so much trimming and cutting work. Wasn't JJ a little kid when I first started reading your blog??

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  8. Hope it is a successful procedure and a speedy recovery, AC. Take care!

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  9. Hope all is well with your surgery.
    Good to have such helpers. What a vrew!

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  10. Good wishes on a successful surgery and fast recovery.

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  11. Blessings to you. I hope all is going well (and that the smoke abates,) Interesting phenomenon, the 'lights in cars.'

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  12. my best wishes for you.

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  13. I am not good at pruning. I wish I was better at it myself.

    I hope your surgery went well….. and after you recover…. no more need for a damn catheter!! Wishing you a very speedy and comfortable recovery!!!

    PipeTobacco

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  14. Wonderful to have the pruning job done, in the garden and in the hospital. Hurry home.

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  15. Hopefully it went well.

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  16. Great to have a friendly neighbor

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  17. Trust all went well and soon you will be able to share your wonderful photography with us..

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  18. Wishing you well and well recovered! And, hah, I solved the light question too.

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  19. So nice to have help outside! Good neighbors rock.

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