Wow, and it’s only 11:30AM!

[kwgeorge]

Did you ever just seem to be having one of those days where you either need to be in a padded room or a bubble? So here I am now sitting wondering why I even got out of bed this morning. This is how all this started. Yesterday we had a quick but rather hard storm come through here. When I got home I looked out in the back yard to see this enormous limb from the very large Elm tree laying on my garden shed and going quite a ways across the yard. At the limbs thickest point it is about 8” around and is probably 30’ long. Well the real problem for me is that it is blocking the way to the shop!



So I decide this wont do so I take a vacation day to stay home and get it cut up. The chainsaw is in the shed and when I open the door I find that I have a nice new skylight in the shed. Apparently the branch fell on the roof first and punched a 2’X2’ hole in it. Ok, so I get the chainsaw out and start on the limb but what I did not see is the large red wasp nest that is on the soffet of the shed. I felt something touch my ankle and I looked down just in time to see a bunch of wasps at my legs and one lanced me in the ankle! As I jumped back I hit a sharp branch with the other leg and sliced it open! Chainsaw went one way I went the other and now I am sulking sitting here with meat tenderizer on one leg and placing a large bandage on the other.

Anyhow, thanks for letting me whine!

Ken

[bigsteel15]

Sounds like you need another vacation day, or you better just go to work.

[JR]

They call it stormy monday
But tuesdays just as bad.
They call it stormy monday
But tuesdays just as bad.
Lord, and wednesdays worse
And thursdays all so sad.

The eagle flies on friday,
Saturday I go out to play.
The eagle flies on friday,
Saturday I go out to play.
Sunday I go to church,
Gonna kneel down and pray.

Lord have mercy,
Lord have mercy on me.
Lord have mercy,
Lord have mercy on me.
Though Im tryin and tryin to find my baby,
Wont someone please send her home to me.

[Ken Massingale]

Wow, bad day, ken. Sorry about the misadventures.
Oh, from the pic it looks like you better quit whining and cut the grass, too! ;-D
k

[Copper]

Yikes! And the day after your birthday no less!

[cabinetman]

Ken

Just wait til you get older. There is a continuoum of hazards all day long. If I drop something, I'll bang my head on the way up. I'm on heart medication that makes me bleed to death if I cut myself. So, I'll be outside doing something and all of a sudden notice blood dripping off like a faucet was turned. I'm not one that likes broken bones, but I still climb trees to trim. Had this huge mango tree that was overhanging our patio and trying to get inside the house. No problem, I'll get my tall ladder and just get up there and cut off those branches. I set up the ladder and analyzed the layout of the branches to be cut and figured out a safe position. So up I go, and cut through the largest one and it swung around and whisked me right off the ladder onto the pavement. As I was falling, thought about doing one of those Ninja screams and whip into a back flip with a half twist to land on my feet like on TV, but ran out of time. Fortunately, I was OK. I figured out everything except for the weight of the fruit.

The night before hurricane Wilma, I conferred with my wife about moving both vehicles to the side of the house. She said she didn't think it was necessary. Well, I said, it's more protected over there. So, I moved them. Below you will see a picture of our huge Eucalyptus tree that got uprooted during the storm and fell exactly perpendicular over where both vehicles were side by side.

As for the insect problem, this part of Florida is perfect for any living creature. I swear I find insects that are indigenous to the Congo. I've always got to scope out what's around me before I do anything, especially when outside.



"I'M NEVER WRONG - BUT I'M NOT ALWAYS RIGHT"

[mschrank]

Not a good day, but it could have been worse if both had gone the same way:

Chainsaw went one way I went the other ...

[kwgeorge]

Man you just aint kidding there Ken! I got the front and side done before the rain hit but it has rained every weekend since! Today it is all overcast and wanting to rain again. My wife is starting to call it “The Jungle”.

Ken

[Turaj]

Not a good day for sure. But, it could be even worse! (with a chain saw in your hand). Count your blessing and go back to work where it is safe!!!!

Hope you are not hurt too much.

[cgallery]

And that's why I have my wife do the chain sawing!

[mater]

Man that's the pits. I know you are glad the chainsaw went the other way.

[MilDoc]

IMHO I will never complain of having a bad day again!

[Pappy]

Only weather related problem I have had is the black dirt drying out and shrinking. Slab shift was so bad that i sepnt one day taking the french doors out and resetting them so I could level and plumb them again.

Wasps seem to be worse this year than in the past, especially the red wasps.