A Pink Extension Cord!!!

Ahhh the joys of yard work...it's a tough job but somebody has to do it--oh, wait that's me!!!  It's a bit hard to think back to all the random things that happen in everyday life especially when I'm trying to do so nearly 6 months after the fact but according to my bragging text message that I'd sent to mom this all went down at the end of May 2011 too--like I said, May is busy!!!  I was diligently doing yard work, trying to keep up with the "Jones'" (who all but one have professional gardeners).  I'd already finished mowing both yards and weed-eating around the edges when I decided to go for broke and trim up all the bushes too (at least in the front yard)!  I began by going all "Edward Scissor-hands" on my coast live oak tree out by the sidewalk because that darn thing grows in crazy directions and needed some serious shaping!  Sadly, I'm no arborist and have NO idea how to properly prune such a tree so I got out a ladder, plugged in my Black & Decker Hedge-Hog and started chopping!!!  I finished when I was adequately satisfied with the tree's new proportions and then made my way over to one of my Robellinies (Date Palms).  This is where the mishap occurred, you see the date palms are still pretty low to the ground and they'd gotten pretty bushy through the spring season so I had to either be squatted down or hunched over to prune out the under layers and when I was about 1/2 way done my saw blade snagged my extension cord and gardening was over!  Lucky I wasn't electrocuted but slightly perturbed that I had to stop in the middle and leave a bush partially pruned to go to Lowe's to buy a new cord.  Imagine my surprise when I saw this beauty on the store shelves--PINK!!!  Not only was it a fabulous color, it boasted a beefy 14 gauge, 13 AMPs with a lighted receptacle PLUS it was the perfect length for my yard 80 feet (50 is not quite enough and 100 gives me too much, leaving me with a tangled mess)!!!   I know these things are abnormal to get excited about but when the job always falls to me these things matter!!!  :-)