errantember

The iffy-looking 30 foot, 20-inch-thick linden tree that used to tower over most of my front yard is now lying in pieces on the ground instead. With no previous tree removal experience, and minimal help from Echo, I was able to cut down the entire thing by myself in one day. I'm really surprised I was able to do it that fast. Like many real-work-involving projects, it looked worse than it was. It was also fun to do a stupid, dangerous male thing without help, which I haven't done in a while.
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We've all had them at one time or another. The Couch. *That* Couch. The Dog Couch. The Crash Couch. And, in the lives of all such couches, a time arrives when patience is at an end, and the inconvenience of continued ownership finally overwhelms the momentum of complacency.

So there I was.

But, I decided, I wasn't going to just stick the fucker out on the curb and wait for the next big pickup. We have enough crap in our landfills already, and although I've made great progress in limiting my Mountain of Garbage contribution in daily life, I'm still just as guilty as anyone else of letting the Big Items head off to ecological oblivion.

This time, I decided, it would be different.
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