Upside down..

So, this afternoon was exciting. I pulled out the amazing wood chipper from its winter storage. One week ago we cut down a smaller - but sadly dying - tree and trimmed a hedge.

Good karma helping others..

As if we did not have enough of our own house to renovate we went to help out a relative with her house yesterday. What a line up for this girl. The whole family stepped up to the task of helping her getting ready to start a new life in her very own fixer upper.

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Then it started to rain so it was not at all appealing to head out in the cold and wet weather to get it all removed from the back garden. But today, it was some glorious +14 degrees Celsius, sun and hard wind so why not?

The chipper came out and the bits and pieces from the now trimmed hedge went through and ended up on the compost. So far so good.

But being the stubborn pig headed horse girl of origin I am. Of course I decided that wasn’t enough. No, I decided it was also a good idea to chip up the tree that was lying on the lawn.

After a bunch of the smaller branches I could reach were done I decided to climb up and stand on the tree and break off an even bigger branch.

What a brilliant idea for a stiff body who came out of surgery five weeks ago. A body that also spent two days during the weekend standing on a hard concrete floor and also crawled around in the side garden laying pavers during Sunday.

To summarise it was freakishly hard to get out of bed already this morning. And for sure it’s not going to be easier tomorrow.

Cause the balancing act of standing on a tree to break off a branch in itself became very short, intense and painful.

The standing itself lasted for about a micro second. Then the tired body and muscles gave up making me wobble around like an Elephant on a football. Before I tipped over and landed back first in to the hard wood and pointy branches.

So there I was. Home alone. Laying in a pile of wood. Upside down - like a beetle on its back - trying to get my limbs to work with me to get me out of there. Tomorrow I will listen to my husband and try not to over do things..

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