~A Little About Me~

I think I mentioned I had a tree service..well my 2nd husband

and I did..I did all the paperwork and phone and appointment

set ups..etc..we were quite busy all the time and at one point

had 6 vehicles and 6 to 8 men working for us..The equipment

we had was staggering..We had 2 climbers..well 3 really but

depended how many jobs we had if the 3rd one would climb.

Not just anyone is a good tree climber..not with just a rope..Its

not easy and requires alot of arm strength..Some climbers use

spikes which are very bad for a tree if you are not going to take

it down...we had a boom or bucket truck that had a huge reach

on it..My ex usually ran it..The groundsmen were a very important

part of the crew..the clean up is what makes a good job..that the

customer only sees the tree gone or trimmed but all else looks

the same..That is a good job..lol...

We had a call to take a dead limb out of a tree..Willie went to

give an estimate on the job..it was accepted and since it was a

small easy job..Willie could do himself , he scheduled it for the

next morning..Willie was the boss but to keep him out of a tree,

well...the only way would be to tie him up..he loved it and would

do some smaller jobs just to keep his hands dirty..He did alot

of the extra work too..We sold firewood during the winter from

all the trees we took down..and it had to be split and delivered

and he did that..The crew didnt work if there was snow. Willie

was and is one of the best tree men in the business..still is

but down in Louisiana now..He moved down there after our

divorce and he got remarried to his first wife lol..ya..I found out

AFTER i left he had been making all these trips to Florida on

the pretense of seeing his brother..well he did..but he saw his

ex wife alot too and I believe slept on her couch a few nights

lolol sure I believe THAT too lol..But he is a good tree man I

would highly recommend him.. ANYWAY..

He went to the house, with the bucket truck to take off that dead

limb.. down below was the house..a few wires and a row of

mailboxes about 6 that were on the end of a road..one was the

man's that he was doing the tree job for.. Willie stabilizes the

boom truck and starts to move the arm up to the limb, reaches

it..pulls the cord on that Husky chain saw and starts to cut that

limb off..it wasnt huge..but kinda long..he stops..looks..down

and around to make sure when that limb falls it wont hit any

thing :-) lol.. dont get ahead of me now...lol...

Willie cuts the limb..down it goes..and SMACK!!! hits one of the

mailboxes down below just denting the daylights out of it... he

mumbles and gets all angry..and lowers the bucket to the ground.

He asks the man if he can use his phone to call me and I would

go and get him a new mailbox at the Fleet Farm just down the

road from the mans house and Willie would replace the mail box.

He phones..tells me to go and get this man a mail box..I said ok

and left to go shopping..I got to the store..and go to look at the

mailboxes and say "CRAP!!!..there are a dozen different kind!!!"

Willie wasnt specific as to what kind to get.. So I'm there looking

at one box to the other and this man is looking at them too..I

glanced at him and smiled..and told him that I had to pick out a

mailbox and had NO idea what to get..that my husband just called

and he smashed a mail box of a customer and he didnt specify

what kind I should get..and NOW I said I was gonna have to go

and call him to find out what kind..I was kinda pouty by then..

The man taps my arm says " I kinda like that one there, its my

mailbox your hubby smashed and I thought I would come pick

out what kind I wanted, so I figured that was you when I saw you

start looking--- that one will do nicely" lolol..I laughed..said "well

why didnt he just give you the money and I wouldnt have had to

drive all the way across town to come here and buy one? He

says "I think he wants lunch too, so you maybe better stop and

bring him something or he will send you back for that " lol..I

smiled and took the mailbox up to the register and paid and

gave the guy the mailbox..lol ..what luck though of all 6 of the

mailboxes Willie managed to take out the customers ONLY

now is that a good tree man or what? :-D lol.. I did pick up

lunch and took that to him ..my luck when the man gave him

the mail box and said he saw me there he would wait till I got

all the way home and call and say "HEY...BRING me some

lunch!! " lol so I saved myself a trip lol..I was hungry anyway..

Well speaking of hungry I am..Lunch was sausage and cabbage

and potatoes..and YESSSSSSS CARROTS..sheesh I have

night mares about those stinkin things ...I do..I bet they grow their

own over there is why they have them 4 times a week..its

peas n carrots or beans n carrots..or STEW n carrots.. I am

so sick of looking at those orange thingies..lol.. I dont like to

EAT them.. now I will admit they do give a good flavor to stuff

IF you cant SEE them.. I have cut them up very very tiny so

that when they cook they disintegrate into whatever..but to see

them all orangy no no..YOU can have mine ok? lol..I'm not

real hungry so maybe just some of Mrs. Grass's extra noodle

chicken soup..its really good those real skinny noodles..good

stuff.. so off I roll into the sunset lol..Nitey Nite..

Y'all have a good one now Y'hear? Luv Ya!! & Thanks :-)

ALways, Lois ****

May God Bless you today,

I'm so honored to call you friend,

I pray the Lord will keep you safe,

Until I write again...