Manly Gardening
Today I went diving in the morning (Two Pots Reef off Hillarys) and then came home to get some serious gardening done in the good weather. There’s a tree in the backyard that I really don’t like (it drops lots of little nuts that kill the lawn and hurt to walk on) and today I was inspired enough to cut it down.
Here’s the before shot, I’d just started hacking away at the trunk. It stood about 5 metres tall, and the upper branches weighed a lot because they were so full of nuts (that’s the main reason I attacked it today — I didn’t want to rake up all those nuts.) I was a little paranoid that the tree might fall on me, which would be rather embarrassing.
Here’s the after shot — it’s down. After it finally fell I stood there looking at it for a while feeling quite manly with my axe, and then I realised, “Damn! I forgot to yell TIM-BERRRRRRR!” I thought about yelling it out anyway, but it wouldn’t have been quite the same.
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