The great hedge trimming

Well, it's been a long time since my last post. In fact Twitter appears to have rolled in as a major force since then. Ah well. One change at a time.

















So those are two of the before photos. In the one directly above you can see at the far left that it had been trimmed down a short bit and then- nothing. I'm not sure who had done that or why they had stopped before doing all of it. Seemed kind of odd. So this past Sat (July 4th weekend) I decided that I really should just level the whole thing off. I layed a string to try and keep things sort of level, and grabbed my hand clipper. After 2 hours we have


















At this point I had to take a bit of a break. My hand was killing me. After 3 hours I came back and re-attemped.


By this time I was done. I could barely open and close my hand so I went to the local hardware store and bought a pair of lopers that can cut braches up to 1 5/8". It was an inspired idea! I trimmed off those last few and it's all finished now.

The final version:

















Phew. And what of all those trimmings? here they are piled high.

First flower!

So here it is! The first flower
from the seeds that I planted in March. Pretty cool- huh?

Trip to Brimfield

A friend belongs to a women's group that provided money to a woman that was interested in going to art school. The woman is doing very successfully and is now giving up her "day job" to focus on painting. It was interesting. Here is a piece of her sculpture:

I purchased one of her paintings. Her studio is in Brimfield, MA. The area is a bit rural. My friend pointed out as we drove, "We're only an hour outside of Boston but it feels like we're about 8 hours outside." The town is well known for the antique shows. Here was something just sitting across the street from francesco's italian restaurant:

All in all, a very good day.

Really bad movie

I realize it isn't the most devastating thing in the world, but when you spend almost $10 on a movie it would be really great if you felt like it was money well spent. I went to see Run Fat Boy Run (starring that fellow from Sean of the Dead) last night. Man was it a piece of crap. I realized after that it was directed by David Schwimmer (the dull Friend). It was the most formulaic thing. Don't waste your time

Moving on

Not me- but most of my neighbors. I live in a condo in a building with a total of 4 units. After I moved in- the guy directly below me put his place on the market. He was gone within 2 months. Now the couple who live opposite of him have also bought a new place. Is it just the cycle of things? Is it seeing how much money someone made on their place makes you realize that you want some of that too? I hate change sometimes.

Gardening

One of the things that I would really like to be knowledgeable about is gardening. I watch HGTV but still only have a basic knowledge of things. This past year my parents gave me one of the seeds of the month and I just started planting them. The seeds were both planted at the same time. The one on the top is doing pretty well on the windowsill at work. The one on the right is in my front window at home. Just goes to show you how much a difference adequate sun can make.

Taking a tumble

On Friday morning I was hanging out in bed wishing that I didn't have to go to work. Wishing that maybe I was sick or something and could just stay home. I finally got myself together and was walking down the stairs (carrying dirty dishes, camera, glass) when I must have misstepped because I tumbled down my wood stairs and hit bottom. Nothing broke (neither me nor the dishes in my hands) but yowza! I am so sore. I have a black and blue bruise about 5"x3" on my hip, a scrape about 3" x 1/2" on my back, and anytime I move from sitting to sitting up straighter (don't ever bring up moving from sitting to standing)- I feel it. Definitely a case of wished I hadn't gotten what I wished for.