Baylie loves to swim and then rub off any excess water on anything holding still, a towel draped on a chair, your legs, or even a low lying branch on a tree. For the past few weeks she has really enjoyed hiding her toys under the broken palm tree branches and rubbing in and out of their long fanned out fingers for a nice back scratch. Although this ritual was quite comical to watch, the branches actually hung low enough to cause an obstruction to people trying to walk around the pool. To tackle this problem last Saturday Mom, Laurah, and I decided to put together a brand-new pole saw, get out some ladders and start chopping up the trees. The tree in the middle wasn't too bad because it was short enough that I could climb up on the small but sturdy yellow ladder. The two outside trees are significantly bigger and I was forced to use the 12ft shaky brown creaking ladder...not so fun, especially because up above my head I was holding the pole saw at full extension! The tree limbs seemed fairly safe to cut because the blade could knaw throuth them fast, before my arms got to tired and they fell slowly. The big heavy torpedo shaped seed pods were a much different story...
they took forever for the saw to slice through and then it was any body's guess where they were to fall! The smallest weighed probably 5-10 pounds and was 3 feet tall and the scariest must have weighed 40 pounds and stood as tall as my shoulders! I was afraid that it would fall on my head knocking me off the 12 foot ladder and into the pool with the electric saw to electrocute myself with...that didn't sound too appetizing so we came up with the bright idea to lasso the top of the pod with a rope so that we could try and guide the pod to fall away from me. As I stood on top of the ladder sawing, Laurah was holding the legs of the ladder trying to keep it from wobbling and Mom kept tension on the rope. I couldn't quite "go-go-Gadget" myself tall enough to completely saw off the pod so I ended up down the ladder yanking on the rope until the last portion of the pod cracked and broke itself out of the tree and luckily it missed all of us! So now Mom's back yard is cleaned up, nobody got injured, and the only one disappointed was Baylie because her low lying limbs are now in the garbage!
they took forever for the saw to slice through and then it was any body's guess where they were to fall! The smallest weighed probably 5-10 pounds and was 3 feet tall and the scariest must have weighed 40 pounds and stood as tall as my shoulders! I was afraid that it would fall on my head knocking me off the 12 foot ladder and into the pool with the electric saw to electrocute myself with...that didn't sound too appetizing so we came up with the bright idea to lasso the top of the pod with a rope so that we could try and guide the pod to fall away from me. As I stood on top of the ladder sawing, Laurah was holding the legs of the ladder trying to keep it from wobbling and Mom kept tension on the rope. I couldn't quite "go-go-Gadget" myself tall enough to completely saw off the pod so I ended up down the ladder yanking on the rope until the last portion of the pod cracked and broke itself out of the tree and luckily it missed all of us! So now Mom's back yard is cleaned up, nobody got injured, and the only one disappointed was Baylie because her low lying limbs are now in the garbage!
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