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Blue Chips
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I know what you mean. I don't want to wait too long before I can get to it. Hopefully within the next six weeks. There are a few high-priority tasks in the way, such as:
1. Finish installing our automatic backup generator.
2. Oversee the scheduled grading and repaving of our driveway.
3. Get the dock back in the water for the summer season.
4. Mow the lawn...not an easy task at the moment, because I need to fix the mowing deck.
5. Move our things out of two rented storage units, which means selling, giving away, or trashing a lot of things; otherwise they WILL fill up the garage. My spousal unit is dedicated to the task, and she has already started the process. About ten boxes of stuff have already disappeared. Once in a while she'll ask me if I want to keep something, but for most items she just makes the decision herself, which is probably a good thing, since I have a barely repressed genetic propensity toward hoarding. One of the storage units will be easy to vacate, as it contains my 1954 Dodge M37 project, which will be moving into the other bay of our old garage, which is basically my workshop. We'll be glad to eliminate the monthly rental payment ($440/month for the two units).
I'm fully 'retired,' although the above projects (and others) are essentially a full-time job. It's a good thing that I like doing this kind of stuff.
MattF
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Why wasted?
MetalMonkey
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I think he means they are necked down, you can see they reduce.
Beeezer
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Yes but why?
Beeezer
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Nasty burr on that stud.
MattF
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Ah. Wasted as in waisted.
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Cut our hawthorn hedge the other day - people that look at you funny when you are wearing welding sleeves and gauntlets have clearly never reached through a hawthorn hedge. 
Been there . . . blackthorn in mine too. Problem is, when I go for a garden wander, and spot dead bits, I reach in to break them out . . then another . . and another . . . I come in with hands looking very secondhand . . and then spend some time over the next few days pulling out snapped off thorn tipsCut our hawthorn hedge the other day - people that look at you funny when you are wearing welding sleeves and gauntlets have clearly never reached through a hawthorn hedge.
I planted mine to stop teenagers sitting on the wall on two sides of my property. As it's a junction, I needed planning permission for a decent height fence. No such requirement for much higher, thicker, hedgeThat's good defensive planting
Those teenagers now have kids of their own . . .
I did some hacking down and back, sorry, pruning, earlier in the year as it was getting too thick and high. Of course, the frosts came back, hard. Lots of dead bits. Still, breaking them out gives more room for fresh new growth.
Mixed up with beech and dog rose with other random stuff I've no idea what it is. Feels nicely isolated from the world when sat out on a summers day.
Best keep out the way then
Can’t beat a bit of necking,purely for some hand made looks,the ready made ones weren’t to his taste,or mine,luckily.
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As a youth I used to work on school gardens and whenever I got blackthorn injuries they always went septic so heavy gloves were a must.
