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So.  I woke up to a tree having fallen across the fence around my garden (crushed that side of it), and into my potato patch.  Okay.  In a weird coincidence, I had just bought a new chainsaw YESTERDAY... the small engine place where my daughter works was running a special - a battery powered Makita saw with 4 batteries and a double charger for $350.  Which is a great deal because each of those batteries costs $107 a piece... so it's like buy 4 batteries and get a free saw and charger, practically.  Anyway, we have so many Makita power tools around here that I needed the batteries (and I figure I can hide one of those so I always have one that I can find when I need one, lol).  Anyway, I went on a grocery run.  

I came back to discover younger daughter (the one that is barely 5'2" and weighs 100# soaking wet) had assembled the chain saw (no biggie, she does this every day at work - I'm just glad she got it done without being told again, since I had mentioned it to her last night).  I'm grateful for that part.

She had also decided to make sure the saw worked by cutting all the branches off the tree right up to her head height (it's laying diagonally on the fence, supported by branches caught at the top 6' height where it hadn't crushed it down.  Well, it worked, but I'm hyperventilating at her doing this while  I wasn't here.  I had to very, very calmly say, "I really appreciate you getting that done, sweetheart, but next time, please wait until I'm home, so there is a driver and vehicle available to haul your butt to the hospital if something goes wrong."    

Argh.  Just... argh.

 

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synchronicity sĭng″krə-nĭs′ĭ-tē, sĭn″-

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  • n. The state or fact of being synchronous or simultaneous; synchronism.
  • n. Coincidence of events that appear meaningfully related but do not seem to be causally connected, taken by Jungian psychoanalytic theory to be evidence of a connection between the mind and material objects.
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Mrs C, you sound like Mrs LostinTexas. You gotta let things happen. You want to protect them, but for the most part in some way or another, they don't want to be.

Sounds like someone who can handle things. Hopefully she is smart enough to know when to walk away.

Happy Worrying (don't plan on ever getting over that).

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2 hours ago, Mrs.Cicero said:

So.  I woke up to a tree having fallen across the fence around my garden (crushed that side of it), and into my potato patch.  Okay.  In a weird coincidence, I had just bought a new chainsaw YESTERDAY... the small engine place where my daughter works was running a special - a battery powered Makita saw with 4 batteries and a double charger for $350.  Which is a great deal because each of those batteries costs $107 a piece... so it's like buy 4 batteries and get a free saw and charger, practically.  Anyway, we have so many Makita power tools around here that I needed the batteries (and I figure I can hide one of those so I always have one that I can find when I need one, lol).  Anyway, I went on a grocery run.  

I came back to discover younger daughter (the one that is barely 5'2" and weighs 100# soaking wet) had assembled the chain saw (no biggie, she does this every day at work - I'm just glad she got it done without being told again, since I had mentioned it to her last night).  I'm grateful for that part.

She had also decided to make sure the saw worked by cutting all the branches off the tree right up to her head height (it's laying diagonally on the fence, supported by branches caught at the top 6' height where it hadn't crushed it down.  Well, it worked, but I'm hyperventilating at her doing this while  I wasn't here.  I had to very, very calmly say, "I really appreciate you getting that done, sweetheart, but next time, please wait until I'm home, so there is a driver and vehicle available to haul your butt to the hospital if something goes wrong."    

Argh.  Just... argh.

 

 

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I have done so many "dangerous" things as a kid and young teen, nobody ever was questioning it, including my parents. When I grew up, I watch my dad on every project and job, it became very clear when to be careful. No need to be supervised.

Another prime example was getting to school. My mom showed me the way to school for one week at age 5, crossing a bunch of streets with plenty of traffic, with no crossings. The walk took about 25 minutes one way, through town. High school later on was out of town, 15 miles away. Not once did my mom, let alone my dad, bring me to school ever again. They got me a bicycle when I was 6, and I had to figure out public transportation for the school out of town, on my own. Took me over 2 hours in the AM to get to school since I had to go through another city. Nobody fixed my breakfast that early. Nobody woke me up.

I don't get today's mentality where kids get a ride to school all the time or are taken to the bus stop by hand. It's no surprise that so many kids don't get along, knowing only one form of life: Living online in video games, on YouTube, watching manga porn, with the face glued to the ""smart"" phone.

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I'm calmer now.  She's cracking me up "Mooooooommmmmm, I am a perfectly competent 18 year old.  Give me a break!"  And I'm right back with, "And I'm your mother, it's my job to drive you nuts about chainsawing alone with no chaps, no helmet, and no ride to the hospital!"  So she rolled her eyes, I bought her a helmet (good luck finding chaps that fit tiny girls with 22" waists, and my advice to everyone is do not web search 'womens chainsaw chaps' on a work computer).  Then I went out and cut up one of the two trunks.  I'll go cut up the other one after I finish my drink.  It's stinking humid again.  

And FWIW, I adore this new baby chainsaw.  It's so quiet.

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2 hours ago, Mrs.Cicero said:

I'm calmer now.  She's cracking me up "Mooooooommmmmm, I am a perfectly competent 18 year old.  Give me a break!"  And I'm right back with, "And I'm your mother, it's my job to drive you nuts about chainsawing alone with no chaps, no helmet, and no ride to the hospital!"  So she rolled her eyes, I bought her a helmet (good luck finding chaps that fit tiny girls with 22" waists, and my advice to everyone is do not web search 'womens chainsaw chaps' on a work computer).  Then I went out and cut up one of the two trunks.  I'll go cut up the other one after I finish my drink.  It's stinking humid again.  

And FWIW, I adore this new baby chainsaw.  It's so quiet.

Gonna run a saw after a "Drink"? I hope it is a virgin what ever if you plan n that. Not setting a good example there Missy. 🤣

FWIW, I love my $89 battery powered saw. It has more cuts in a battery than I do, so it is a match. Light and quiet. Both are a bonus for a broken body. I had 2 trees to cut, and there were a few "bushes" in the cluster as well. The thing handled the locust trees like a champ. But since I just had 2 and some cleanup, I didn't want to drop a lot on it. The thing is much better than it's price tag.

 

P.S. If she is smart enough to walk away from too large or dangerous a challenge, then you have done your part, and managed to get through as well. Cheers.

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14 hours ago, LostinTexas said:

Gonna run a saw after a "Drink"? I hope it is a virgin what ever if you plan n that. Not setting a good example there Missy. 🤣

FWIW, I love my $89 battery powered saw. It has more cuts in a battery than I do, so it is a match. Light and quiet. Both are a bonus for a broken body. I had 2 trees to cut, and there were a few "bushes" in the cluster as well. The thing handled the locust trees like a champ. But since I just had 2 and some cleanup, I didn't want to drop a lot on it. The thing is much better than it's price tag.

 

P.S. If she is smart enough to walk away from too large or dangerous a challenge, then you have done your part, and managed to get through as well. Cheers.

Oh, it was just a RedBull.  So I was all caffeinated for the rest of the job.  About the only time I drink anything alcoholic anymore is wine when I have steak for supper.  or mead after mowing the lawn (when I actually have time to make mead, with hasn't happened in several years, so I'm down to 2 bottles from the last batch, I think.  Unless the husband drank them when I wasn't looking).

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So, I just initiated a contract on a 35 acre piece of land in central Colorado, affectionately named Kenville.  There's a forest in the back of the property. Kiddo can come camp and do as much chainsaw work as will make her heart content. 

If she saws her leg off, it's 30 minutes to the nearest hospital. Be sure she knows how to apply a tourniquet, please.

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22 minutes ago, tadbart said:

So, I just initiated a contract on a 35 acre piece of land in central Colorado, affectionately named Kenville.  There's a forest in the back of the property. Kiddo can come camp and do as much chainsaw work as will make her heart content. 

If she saws her leg off, it's 30 minutes to the nearest hospital. Be sure she knows how to apply a tourniquet, please.

 

I'm ready to go!

 

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2 hours ago, Mrs.Cicero said:

Ugh.  Today's chainsaw  lesson was from the husband... don't step on a yellow jacket nest while sawing... I will go back there later in my bee suit and see what I can do about that.

They can be some narrow minded little buggars. For the most part they build above ground here, usually right where you need to be for some reason. Paper wasps and bumble bees like to get into holes in these parts and build some impressive nests. Fortunately we don't have many paper wasps, but bumble bees are plentiful and get very irritated when you disturb the nest, ran a brush hog into a tank (pond for you northerners) over a bumble bee nest. 🐝 Daddy and Uncle weren't amused, Pappy was rolling. Told them both to zip it and go do better. End of the rant, right there.

Thankfully, they mostly try to avoid areas with human traffic.

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On 8/13/2021 at 1:37 PM, Mrs.Cicero said:

So.  I woke up to a tree having fallen across the fence around my garden (crushed that side of it), and into my potato patch.  Okay.  In a weird coincidence, I had just bought a new chainsaw YESTERDAY... the small engine place where my daughter works was running a special - a battery powered Makita saw with 4 batteries and a double charger for $350.  Which is a great deal because each of those batteries costs $107 a piece... so it's like buy 4 batteries and get a free saw and charger, practically.  Anyway, we have so many Makita power tools around here that I needed the batteries (and I figure I can hide one of those so I always have one that I can find when I need one, lol).  Anyway, I went on a grocery run.  

I came back to discover younger daughter (the one that is barely 5'2" and weighs 100# soaking wet) had assembled the chain saw (no biggie, she does this every day at work - I'm just glad she got it done without being told again, since I had mentioned it to her last night).  I'm grateful for that part.

She had also decided to make sure the saw worked by cutting all the branches off the tree right up to her head height (it's laying diagonally on the fence, supported by branches caught at the top 6' height where it hadn't crushed it down.  Well, it worked, but I'm hyperventilating at her doing this while  I wasn't here.  I had to very, very calmly say, "I really appreciate you getting that done, sweetheart, but next time, please wait until I'm home, so there is a driver and vehicle available to haul your butt to the hospital if something goes wrong."    

Argh.  Just... argh.

 

Kids don't think the was adults do...there are never any "accidents"...My boys now in their 50's recently related some "things" that happened/they did as teens that I never knew about,,,,,HAIR  RAISING...OMG 

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On 8/13/2021 at 3:54 PM, crockett said:

 

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I have done so many "dangerous" things as a kid and young teen, nobody ever was questioning it, including my parents. When I grew up, I watch my dad on every project and job, it became very clear when to be careful. No need to be supervised.

Another prime example was getting to school. My mom showed me the way to school for one week at age 5, crossing a bunch of streets with plenty of traffic, with no crossings. The walk took about 25 minutes one way, through town. High school later on was out of town, 15 miles away. Not once did my mom, let alone my dad, bring me to school ever again. They got me a bicycle when I was 6, and I had to figure out public transportation for the school out of town, on my own. Took me over 2 hours in the AM to get to school since I had to go through another city. Nobody fixed my breakfast that early. Nobody woke me up.

I don't get today's mentality where kids get a ride to school all the time or are taken to the bus stop by hand. It's no surprise that so many kids don't get along, knowing only one form of life: Living online in video games, on YouTube, watching manga porn, with the face glued to the ""smart"" phone.

These are DIFFERENT TIMES, sure, we all walked to school mostly alone if we are 50 or older...now you can' trust anybody..

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4 minutes ago, DAKA said:

These are DIFFERENT TIMES, sure, we all walked to school mostly alone if we are 50 or older...now you can' trust anybody..

Its not about trust, its about perception and how you deal with true threats.

Taking your kids to school (etc) only manifests fear, anxiety and depression. These days they claim that some 30% have anxiety and depression issues. It comes at no surprises when parents instill fear, instead of confidence.

Teach your kids to be independent, how to spot real issues in time, and how to deal with it. Don't hide them. If you do, you will breed a generation that is incapable of surviving the shitstorm that is about to come.

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2 hours ago, crockett said:

Its not about trust, its about perception and how you deal with true threats.

Taking your kids to school (etc) only manifests fear, anxiety and depression. These days they claim that some 30% have anxiety and depression issues. It comes at no surprises when parents instill fear, instead of confidence.

Teach your kids to be independent, how to spot real issues in time, and how to deal with it. Don't hide them. If you do, you will breed a generation that is incapable of surviving the shitstorm that is about to come.

Depends on where you live....

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