The Axeman Cometh
Dec. 3rd, 2008 09:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tagrynWe had a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner, thanks to Donna's excellent cooking. Over the long weekend I got some general housekeeping chores done that I didn't want to wait much longer to do, what with the weather turning colder. I cleaned up the leaves under the apple tree, and spread new soil around the base - the microbes in the soil are supposed to help clean up any remaining spores from the cedar rust infestation we had this year. The Christmas lights are up on the house, and the timer for automatically turning them on and off is working well. I filled up the bird feeder and the birdbath, and cleaned up what was left of the garden, putting the dead plants on the compost pile.
I also used an axe for the first time in many years (or ever? not sure). We had some medium-sized fallen branches that needed to be broken-up before they'd fit in the recycling cans, and we'd inherited an axe along with the other tools left behind by the previous residents of the house. So, I wanted to see what it would be like to use one. My reaction after the first swing was an expletive - it cracked apart the branches like they weren't there, something that would have been time-consuming using a handsaw. Definitely gave me an appreciation for the axe's value as a tool. I can see what its considered a deadly weapon, too - the amount of kinetic force the device concentrates into the head is amazing, and something one doesn't appreciate until using it. An common axe can easily deliver a blow that can shatter bone and skull, and even with a heavy helmet on, a solid blow would certainly cause a concussion and probably unconsciousness.
I also used an axe for the first time in many years (or ever? not sure). We had some medium-sized fallen branches that needed to be broken-up before they'd fit in the recycling cans, and we'd inherited an axe along with the other tools left behind by the previous residents of the house. So, I wanted to see what it would be like to use one. My reaction after the first swing was an expletive - it cracked apart the branches like they weren't there, something that would have been time-consuming using a handsaw. Definitely gave me an appreciation for the axe's value as a tool. I can see what its considered a deadly weapon, too - the amount of kinetic force the device concentrates into the head is amazing, and something one doesn't appreciate until using it. An common axe can easily deliver a blow that can shatter bone and skull, and even with a heavy helmet on, a solid blow would certainly cause a concussion and probably unconsciousness.
