On Feb 22, 7:16*pm, wrote:
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:59:39 -0800, "nom=de=plume"

wrote:
Nope, make the wife do the pruning.

I'm sure she's better at it anyway. Women are better at most things, and
they do it in heels... the reference is:

Ginger Rodgers danced the same dances with Fred Astaire, except she did it
in heels and backwards.

I bought my wife a chain saw and told her to have at it years ago.
She comes home from work in a mood sometimes and just needs to kill
something. I came home from a trip to Atlanta once to a yard full of
stuff so big I had to hire a chipper truck to haul it away. It took
them 4 hours of grinding to get it all..

Well, my wife does things a bit differently. Sometimes she comes home
made enough to bite a 9 penny nail in two. Then she goes on a hard
cleaning rampage. She yells and throws stuff in the washer, slams
magazines into the trash hopper, and throws away stuff fromt he
refrigerator and freezer. some of the frozen stuff isn't two weeks
old.

I just stay out of her path and let her have the way with the house,
because If i dare to ask to help, i usually get a loud and forceful
"Get out of my way. I'm mad!"

Works for me.....