Me, I love fog!!! Where I live we're in a bay on an enclosed harbour so we get heavy fogs reasonably often, I love it when It's so thick that I lok out my front window & cant even see the porch fence 2m away
But I especially love it when the fog settles a little &, cos we're quite high up the hill, we are sitting just above it, with the fog starting at our hedge & filling the bay like a thick bowl of soup! It looks so cool
!
Mind you, the damp definitely isn't good for the joints! I've had osteoarthritus since I was 11yo. & my 13yo daughter is starting to develop it in her hands
I never would've wanted it for my children. Never even occured to me that it might be hereditary
. A total genetic rip off!
But in the meantime it is a lovely spring day way down here on the bottom of the world & John & I spent our weekend clambering around inside our hedge (it is 30 ft tall down by the creek) for the annual pruning. John up the tree with the chainsaw, balancing precariously on branches, the chainsaw in one hand, the top half of the branch he was cutting in the other & with his 3rd hand hanging on to another branch for dear life so that the juddering of the chainsaw or the plummet of the falling branch (we were cutting it back quite a bit so many of the branches were as thick as my, or even his forearm) as he tried to steer it towards me, didnt drag him from his perch
. We had heaps of fun (well in retrospect anyway
) & collected tons of bruises & a mountain of branches so high that we've actually had to arrange to borrow a truck to get rid of the stuff since there is no way it would fit on our trailer. Not quite a quater of the hedge down... 3/4's+ to go
I have never understood. People who plant Trees (Instead of bushes) as hedges. Do they get so caught up in how cute the little sapling's look that it never occurs to them just how big the things are going to grow? Or are they just stupid?
The woman next door to us, when we had a discussion about her maybe cutting her side of the hedge also, preferably before our view completely dissapeared. Informed me, absolutely straightfaced, that the section in question (which is about 8 foot & growing fast) wouldn't grow much bigger than it was & we shouldn't fuss so much. The section where the same hedge is over 30 foot tall is also on her property. She then informed us that we shouldn't be so worried about the view anyway, she'd been living here over 20 years now & hardly even noticed the view anymore. Is this woman for real!!! I politely informed her that, as we had only been living here 3 years the view was still pretty important to us & regardless of how we might feel about it in 20 years time, we really would like to be able to enjoy it now.
For some reason I find that I am failing to develop warm, cosey, neighbourly feelings towards her. I expect she thinks that we're the neighbours from hell. She keeps telling us what we ought to be doing on our property & we keep on doing things our own way... I mean, how inconsiderate of us!
Oh well, that's life I suppose, & the rest of our neighbours are nice & friendly & it's a stunning place to live. Never would've dreamed that I would ever be able to live in a place like this
Oooopps... I think I rambled off topic a bit there *this is where I'd put an embarassed face if I could use the smilies*
