No football this week in our football hating household so we spent most of the weekend topping the forty foot something ficus tree that was in our backyard.

It should start sprouting new branches in the next few months that I'm going to keep trimmed into a small canopy with a pole saw. At least that is the plan providing topping it didn't kill it but ficus trees seem to be all but impossible to kill.
At least we saved a bunch of money doing this ourselves. The cheapest tree cutter wanted $1500 and he was unlicensed. Professional licensed tree people wanted well over $2000 to top this tree.
I spent $200 for two electric chainsaws that I now own so that I can do more trimming around the yard.
With all the money I'm saving I can go shopping for important things like shoes, handbags and clothes.
Plus I'm turning a lot of it into firewood and the rest the city takes away for free on the forth Monday of each month that I still need to drag out to the street .
Anyway it was good exercise. :)
I thought I was done trimming trees for awhile but this morning I called DirecTV to have our dish moved off of the chimney and on to the side of the house where it won't be so noticeable and also shielded from the wind in a hurricane.
After I got off the phone with DirecTV I realized that there was a tree branch in the way of where I want the dish moved to.
So I got out the pole saw and cut the offending limb and as it came crashing down it caught the wires going to the street light in front our house yanking down the wires with a hideous sound.
The power company was real good about it though. They came right out and hooked the wires back up.
Going to be taking it easy tonight and watching more Farscape whilst vegging out on the couch.
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