Well I guess the perfect follow up to my
Heloise moment is a
Tim Taylor moment. I spent about 5 hours on Saturday working in the yard, trimming bushes, weeding, and such. Well, I got a little lax about watching the power cord to the hedge trimmer and the photo is the result. OOOPS!
I didn't get an electrical shock until I had already disconnected it from the house and was freeing the cord from the blade, so it was just residual and minor. I finished the bushes by hand clippers afterward.
I called my dad to ask how many power cords he had cut thru and he said just one, but several times. Hee hee. So apparently it is repairable, which is good, since my DH is lamenting his nice power cords' injury. (He has several other nice cords, so I'm not sure why it's such a big deal, but hey, I don't love tools like he does.)
My dad did say that they once got an estimate for getting the bushes trimmed by a service, and it was upwards of $5000! So he said whenever he was trimming bushes after that, he just thought about all the money he was saving by doing it himself. :)
From that perspective, I could probably buy a few nice new power cords for DH. :) (But I couldn't replace the memories, he'd say.)
Dinoguy and Fixitman got up on the roof this past weekend and cleaned out the gutters/cut back tree branches/other fix-it type stuff. Hopefully no more critters can crawl thru the mesh screen into our attic - the holes are gone.
Mostly I like photos like these to scare the grandmas. Is that bad? Of course they were careful! Plus old houses don't have as steep of roof grades as those new fangled homes. Yet another reason that I like older homes!
