Now I'm ready for spring...

I went out yesterday and noticed the planter I had been nurturing in the garage all winter had begun to sprout!

This was so exciting... I didn't know if these garlic seeds I had been given would even grow... more than not having faith in them, I really didn't have much faith in myself. I readied it to move to the next stage in protection on the porch, and then panicked that I HAD to have the trees pruned before the sap comes... before spring arrives! And this green sprout was my first sign, it is really on the way!!

So thinking I would get some help from the teenager, I grabbed my gloves and the saw and headed out to prune. I had asked anyone and everyone who would come by, for their expertise on how and which limbs and when to do this. And I was certain I could learn and maybe not even kill the trees in the process. I would look, and chose a place to start, and saw and after it fell to the ground, I would step back and look again. Once I got 3 or 4 limbs off, it became much more clear what else had to go. Then I got to a point, where I couldn't decide when to stop.

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So I came inside to take a break, and find that teenager, who was supposed to be helping me. My hands were cramping up from holding and working the saw, apparently I don't use those muscles very much.

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And at that moment one of my horticulture specialist friends called and said she was thinking about me, and was almost to my house... so I begged her to swing by and take a look. She approved and I was just at the perfect place to stop (whew, I couldn't have gotten the saw back in my now crippled hand). She had me put white glue over the ends of the cuts and now I was done!

My next big worry, was what to do with the limbs. I had made quit a mess in the yard. I was going to need help with this next part. Just before dinner, I left to go return the glue and when I came home, my strong silent mysterious man was home from work and the teenager was loading up the limbs in his truck! AAAAaaaaaahhhhhh!!!!

This was the best GIFT ever!! Well in the top 5 for me!!!!!

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Now I feel like a ton of bricks is off of my shoulders, it's amazing how freeing it feels to have something done that I had been putting off and dreading.

Now I am officially ready for spring... I might even have to dig out the spring decorations!