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Looking At My Chainsaw Now

Beautiful berry bushes have grown renegade all over our yard. Garden catalogs call them this, it is not a name I made up. They are beautiful, but also strangling. They have strangled three crepe myrtles, and a couple of lilac bushes, forcing them to die. One has wound himself around my apple tree, The apple has given up. She produced less than five apples this year. Another is climbing precariously close to my largest oak tree. These beautiful berry bushes are bullies, and I will have to do something about them. Bully berry bushes, I think, renaming them, to give myself a bit of power. Beautiful at first, but after they ingratiate themselves, fooling you completely with their prettiness They strangle all other vegetation in their path, killing bushes and trees, and not caring a whit. Sort of like a beautiful woman without a conscious, who ingratiates herself into a family, Strangling it and killing it with her lack of integrity. A beautiful man can do it too, it is not always a woman. Beautiful berry bushes, not unlike charismatic beautiful people with no conscious feelings for others. I am looking for my chainsaw now. Best to cut the head off the snake, right?

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Date: 11/5/2018 11:34:00 AM
In my experience...yep! Do we have the same yard? Although the bane of my yard work is poke weed and locust trees that breed a thousand times more than rabbits.
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 11/5/2018 2:19:00 PM
I cannot believe how fast they spring up - it seems like they are twenty feet tall overnight!
Date: 10/30/2018 5:19:00 PM
Hahahaha! I'm saving this for the next time I need to do yardwork- LOVE it!!! ;D
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Rhona Mcferran
Date: 10/31/2018 8:40:00 AM
I forgot to mention... LOVE your nickname for them "bully berry bushes"! ;D
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 10/31/2018 12:13:00 AM
I go after it and butcher it sometimes, still it grows back, all over the yard, placing itself every twelve feet or so.
Date: 10/30/2018 7:44:00 AM
Trixie with a chainsaw is a frightening thought.
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 10/30/2018 8:52:00 AM
I have two long-handled axes, and I am not afraid to use them.

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