Well, the macadamia tree is almost gone. I was in my barn chamoiing the Mustang. My wife appeared at the door and said she needed another battery for the chainsaw. Huh? She said she was chopping the tree down and was lopping branches and only had one branch to go that she could reach. I thought I better go and see what the heck she was doing. Hopped on my scooter and just before I moved, the dogs barked and ran around the house. Strange! Anyway when I got to the tree I found my wife lying on the ground under a ladder and huge branch. I extracted her and she was covered in grazes and bruises and huge blood blister.
"I fell off the ladder" she said. "I can see that" I said. She apparently was standing on top of the 8 ft aluminium ladder reaching up to cut this 5" round branch off. Of course when it came down it took her with it. I could hardly believe it.
I told her she should never go up a ladder with a chainsaw. I think she got the message.
I said "you've bent the ladder". She said, "well now you can buy a better one." I said "that was a better one". Today she has iodine on all her scratches and bruises. Lots of them. But other than that she is OK. Luckily the chainsaw missed her and survived with no damage. Hopefully she has learned from the experience. I wasn't aware she was getting up to mischief until the dog alarm. Here she is a little later. That's the branch that took her down. Can't stop a good woman.
Oh, she did ask, "is my chainsaw all right?" Whose chainsaw?
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