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Actually, you know my current problem is that I'm going to have to start doing my neighbors yards because their leaves keep blowing into my perfect yard.
Oh, and today, my husband went out and rented scaffolding so he could cut down limbs that were hanging low over three power lines. If you'd have seen it, you would have had a heart attack. How he managed to do it and not kill himself or hit any of the three lines is beyond me. I couldn't watch it, myself.
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Ouch, Kayla. Even without the problems he's been having that's something I'd have a lot of trouble watching! Hope he's all done with that project.
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Oh, lord no. He only got the parts over the power lines done today. He still had a good 20 feet of those two limbs that aren't hanging over the power lines and then three other limbs on that tree, one limb that is 50 feet in the air on another tree, and several smaller limbs on a couple of the other trees. But, tomorrow he will have a friend come over and help him and he will bring a little chainsaw.
Last weekend, I told him I'd never help him with another project ever again. This was his idea and after he started, he realized that his plan (using two ladders strapped together) wasn't going to work. So, we went back to his work to get a different ladder. At that point, he complained it was windy and he didn't want to die. I said that was perfectly reasonable. But then I was irritated. Why was he whining? Why didn't he just say it had gotten too windy to continue? I told him I wasn't pleased at being painted as the bad guy who was trying to kill him. It was his idea to do this in the first place and I was just helping. So, we get home and he whines "It's cold." I was angry that time. I told him that was fine, but that after 15 years of me telling him he was a pain in the butt to work with, I was finished. He was on his own. He told me that the job was just more complicated than he thought and it threw him.
Now see, at this point, I did something I probably shouldn't have. I told him that if, while he was remodeling (his plan, also) he took down a wall, or made a bathroom unusable and then decided it was "more complicated" than he thought and quit, I'd kill him in his sleep.
We even argued about it later. I told him I didn't like feeling like I was this horrible shrew who would be more than happy if he were dead as long as the limbs were down. I said to him that when whined like that, it made me feel like he thought I was a shrew. And I'm a really nice person! To which, he said, "I'm sorry I made you feel that way." To which, I nearly did kill him. It wasn't that he [didn't[/i] feel that I was a shrew, but that he's sorry he made me feel like one. So, his project, his way of doing it, me following him around and doing what he asks me to, and I'm the shrew that's making him take these limbs down when it's windy and cold.
Yes, he has issues. So, now, he's taking the limbs down by himself, or with his friend. But not with me. Posts: 9871 | Registered: Aug 2001
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On a different note, I'd be willing to bet a substantial amount of money I can't afford to lose that you know exactly what direction the wind is supposed to be blowing tonight. Posts: 4344 | Registered: Mar 2003
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