Seriously, yanking grape vines out of trees would make you say it something like that. ;) It reminded me very much of ripping fat pipe-brier vines (which my bull loved by the way) out of the oak trees in Florida (and the fences and anything else they took a mind to grow into).
These were wild grape-vines that had completely swallowed a peach tree, a mess of currants, and a young maple.
These were wild grape-vines that had completely swallowed a peach tree, a mess of currants, and a young maple.
There were several loads this size...
I actually rather enjoy this kind of job...as you can probably tell from the following pictures...
It had also "eaten" that old brick fire-place thing too...I had forgotten that. (And obviously, this was taken after most of the vine was already out.)
I almost flipped off there backward once...glad I didn't because it would have hurt--and I probably would have mashed the back of my hat!
A "tree-nymph"...or something. (What a jolly green mustache have I!)
Being a goofy with the nippers. (Stationed between the peach on my left [right as you view] and the maple and lilac mess on my right [your left]; below are the currant. ;])
After we were done with this, Mama topped the mint and I fed my chickens their mid-afternoon snack and talked to Grandpa for a while (he had come out to watch us work...wearing a jacket and gloves, but I guess once you get to be 91 years old you can wear whatever you like on a warm day. ;D)
I next hauled all the vines up to the burn ring...before addressing the wild grape vine in the Flowering Quince by the drive. (It has really pretty red flowers in the spring.) In the process of that, I decided to chop the dead wood out of the shrubby tree next to the Quince (I do not know what it is, but it has pink flowers on it--the hummingbirds seem to like it).
Once done with that little chore it was time to feed chickens again. I fed Katherine's first (she was in town with Grandma) and then with Daddy and Savannah's help moved my Rangers (now 7 weeks old!). After feeding them, I watered in the manure. We really need some rain 'round here. I think we are supposed to get some Wednesday...I hope so.
Anyway, that the extent of my afternoon's adventures. What'd you do? :D
I next hauled all the vines up to the burn ring...before addressing the wild grape vine in the Flowering Quince by the drive. (It has really pretty red flowers in the spring.) In the process of that, I decided to chop the dead wood out of the shrubby tree next to the Quince (I do not know what it is, but it has pink flowers on it--the hummingbirds seem to like it).
Once done with that little chore it was time to feed chickens again. I fed Katherine's first (she was in town with Grandma) and then with Daddy and Savannah's help moved my Rangers (now 7 weeks old!). After feeding them, I watered in the manure. We really need some rain 'round here. I think we are supposed to get some Wednesday...I hope so.
Anyway, that the extent of my afternoon's adventures. What'd you do? :D
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