Trees. They take up a lot of space.

We had 4 trees in front of our house, right on the boundary line, and two of them were close to a drain, and you know the horror stories about roots and drains and repairs.

So MrsPdubyah said they had to go. So they did.

 

Naturally you want to explore your options before taking on a project, and it came down to two Options:

Option (1)

1. I hire a chain saw


2. I cut the branches off


3. Cut the trunk


4. Cut myself


5. Pile up the cuttings


6. Cram cuttings into car


7. Have tantrum


8. Drive to tip


9. Pay some more money


10. Cut myself some more


11. Damage Car


12. Shrug shoulders and wonder how that happened


13. Wash Car


14. Take chainsaw back

Option (2)

1. Ring a man


2. Hire the man


3. Watch man work


4. Listen to Music


5. Pay man


6. Job done.

The stump remover\grinder chap will be here monday to take out the very bottom part of the trees, and a couple bags of soil and some new grass, and then I have enough for a cricket pitch. Just in time for summer. Or a water slide.

The saddest part is how little bulk there is in a tree.

 

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Industry, Profession, Job?

in part as response to nonsense like this "Twitter is one that can be difficult to understand the benefit of sometimes - for the recruitment industry simply rolling out job after job is incredibly boring"  Rectruitment is NOT an industry

Twitter is not an Industy....

or this

The Social Media industry is growing in New Zealand. We might be a few years behind the rest of the world... Social Media is not an Industry (although like most of the not industry industries you need to be industrious).
Real Estate - not an industry
Car Sales - not an industry
Working in a Recruitment - not an industry

Banking - Industry
Insurance - Industry
Tourism - Industry
Film and TV - Industry
Music - Industry
Building - Industry
Advertising - Industry

Teaching - Profession
Lawyer - Profession - the 'legal system' however an Industry
Television presenter - Profession
Musiscian - Profession

Job
Working in a warehouse
working in the #cubefarm
Working on a helpdesk.
Working in bank.
Working at an advertising agency.
Working in a store.

Changing Places

We live in a nice community of a  hundred or so similarly designed and coloured houses, but as time does you have to make some maintenance steps

As its a plaster sided house we had to have the small cracks repaired, it's not a leaky house, but the fact is that the construction style does not suit New Zealand with it's harsher sun and Cooler winters.

So the plaster man came, and alarmed us all with his angle-grinder, and just by the number he found that we'd not noticed. The house then looked a bit patch-work and would have frightened the neighbours to all heck - leaky home syndrome being what it is and that. The house opposite who is having some similar work done the chap used a glue gun!! I know what I'd rather pay for.

Then the house washer came, water blasting his way around the roof and the walls

Then the painter. And do you know how hard it is to choose a paint. Like I said each of the houses are a similar design and colouring, so you really feel obliged to kind of stick near that same scheme.

Resene must love us. I think we tried 10-12 colours, and then finally settled on a colour recommendation from the actual painter of a colour called JOSS

With trepidation we agreed and he's painting now, slowly so slowly, up and down his ladder doing the eves and the cedar barge-boards. But the bit he has painted in JOSS seem to be magnificent

Real estate sharks have been popping letters in the mail-box "are we selling" and the little old ladies in the street are stopping him working to discuss the colour. He, the painter, tells one story where in Herne Bay (Auckland) he painted a house in SISAL, the neighbours were very keen to know what color etc etc. Six months later they painted their house the same much to the annoyance of home owner #1. Flattery huh

I don't expect a flood of house painting anytime soon in our street, but who knows

Changing Places

We live in a nice community of a a hundred or so similarly designed and coloured houses, but as time does you have to make some maintenance steps

As its a plaster sided house we had to have the small cracks repaired, it's not a leaky house, but the fact is that the construction style does not suit New Zealand with it's harsher sun and Cooler winters.

So the plaster man came, and alarmed us all with his angle grinder, and just by the number he found that we'd not noticed. The house then looked a bit patch-work and would have frightened the neighbours to all heck - leaky home syndrome being what it is and that. The house opposite who is having some similar work done the chap used a glue gun!! I know what I'de rather pay for.

Then the house washer came, water blasting his way around the roof and the walls

Then the painter. And do you know how hard it is to choose a paint. Like I said each of the houses are a similar design and colouring, so you really feel obliged to kind of stick near that same scheme.

Resene must love us. I think we tried 10-12 colours, and then finally settled on a colour recommendation from the actual painter of a colour called JOSS

With trepidation we agreed and he's painting now, slowly so slowly, up and down his ladder doing the eves and the ceder barge-boards. But the bit he has painted in JOSS seem to be magnificent

Real estate sharks have been popping letters in the mail-box "are we selling" and the little old ladies in the street are stopping him working to discuss the colour. He, the painter, tells one story where in Herne Bay (Auckland) he painted a house in SISAL, the neighbours were very keen to know what color etc etc. Six months later they painted their house the same much to the annoyance of home owner #1. Flattery huh

I don't expect a flood of house painting anytime soon in our street, but who knows