After shooting in some of the craziest wind and mirage conditions, came home and trimmed a bush in front of the side porch that was in dire need of a trim. To my surprise, my Shindaiwa hedge trimmer started after a couple of pulls. Normally, I drain the tank and run the engine until it is bone dry at the end of the season. It appears I overlooked it and found it hanging from the shed ceiling with a half tank of last year's gas. I dumped it and put in fresh and it ran like a raped ape.
I've decided to take a new approach to trimming bushes. One bush a week, regardless of size. I come home every weekend to shoot so I can do one bush every week and things look good and I don't burn myself out doing yardwork marathons. In the past, I'd do both the hedges, and all the bushes in the landscaping in one long day. I'm done with that. I hire the man to do the hedges now. Gas powder hedge trimmers and ladders are a thing of the past for me. I can still do it. Just don't want to. Can afford to pay someone else. And I know that if I kept doing it, at some point, there'd be a bad day that I would wish I'd avoided. Will Muny said it. "A man's gotta recognize his limitations."
