Oct 10 2005
Hedge
Spending the Canadian Thanksgiving weekend with Alison’s family in Ottawa. For the first time I was happy that we had a traditional diner (turkey, mashed potatoes, squash etc.) because yesterday a piece of one of my teeth broke off and I could barely chew. But with all those soft dishes I still could eat something, and didn’t have to revert to the can of soup I brought. Alison made a great pumpkin pie as dessert and I ate two pieces.
Today the men (not me) spend some time cutting the hedge. They have extended the hedge cutter with a piece of wood, because it’s too big to reach. They managed to not cut the wire although it looked rather dangerous for an onlooker like me.
Wednesday, 19 October, 2005 @ 09:12
now that’s a hedge! my neighbor keeps having our common hedge cut a foot from the ground, supposedly because it’ll grow out so much nicer (but she keep having it cut, do you see the problem?. the result is that we’ve felt like her yard was part of ours all summer. unfortunately, she’s our deaf-but-in-denial neighbor (when her phone rings i go to pick up mine, when she has visitors we can hear her doorbell before they start pounding on the door and yelling out her name – i’ve thought of buying her a hearing aid and leaving it in her mailbox, since nobody else wants to tell her she can’t hear!) and we want nothing to do with her yard or her. (she hates birds too and complains because i feed them all winter!)