Dark Side of the Horse by Samson for October 11, 2020

I plan to do the same thing with our hedges.

Both hedges and walls need care, but, somehow, a hedge is friendlier. (I think the poet Robert Frost thought that; his poem "Mending wall’ had a narrator who really didn’t want the fix the wall between fences…)

All that work ….. for more work.

Making your own autonomous zone, eh, horsie?

Horace – more a mason than landscaper ;+)

Efficiency at its most blatant. Never have to trim the hedge again, and the privacy of the house is still maintained. And they say animals are dumb : D

I have neighbors from hell…..This year I stacked 6 cord of wood and one 8 foot section of fencing to give us some privacy. Next year I plan on putting up more sections of fence…and maybe order 8 cord of wood!:-)

I’ve been cutting my own hair since April. Not sure why this brings that to mind.

I definitely had this problem the first time I trimmed a row of holly hedge. It’s like, if you give a mouse a cookie. As the things you trim by change up close, it’s tougher to get yourself to step away for perspective. I’m sure there’s a trick to it but the following year, I made a point to step away and look back. That helped.

I think this is the same challenge for nail biters. You get a hangnail or a snag, then try to even it…suddenly, the nail is gone.

Someone needs to invent the hedging drone that flys upside down.

Horace, don’t you know, walls don’t work.

Privacy rules! Brick and mortar lasts forever…..

Is Mexico paying you to do that Horace?

Keep going Horace… we can still see the house…!

Yeah, I’d probably have the same problem if I had a hedge to trim, knowing my luck.

OCD = PITA

Like trimming sideburns or mustaches. Although with people wearing masks, no one notices now.

He built the wall with his hedge fund.

They say good fences make good neighbors, what about a brick wall?

no, we taxpayers are!

Hope he remembered to use a level.

I can so relate to this.

String, Horace! String.

Looks like Horace quit trying to hedge his bets, and went with a sure thing.

Don’t fence me in.

But the birds and spiders can’t nest in your wall, unless you plant ivy in front of it. And that will take a long time. :-(

Cut down all of the trees and name the streets after them…