My husband and I disagree on lots of things, but one issue comes along every two or three years.
The smilax screen on our porch that must be killed — so a new green, beautiful screen can take it’s place.
This should be done every April, but my husband hates the thought of it. We live on a very busy street and part of his enjoyment of being on the porch is tied to the smilex that weaves it’s way through the decade’s old rusty iron screen.
There is only one problem with this. After a year or so, the deep down smilax gets strangled by the other vines and dies.
Leaving brown ugly dead.
Here’s our marital conflict. My husband would rather have brown, ugly, dead cover than no cover.
I (though not usually a slave to aesthetics) can’t stand the dead leaves.
Every two years or so when I can’t take it anymore I cut, hack, get scratched and scraped to the max and strip it bare ~ so beautiful new green vines can cling on the rusty iron.
Yesterday was D-Day after dear hubby drove off. (This is what he gets for leaving me alone with the children all day.)
I kept pulling and cutting and finally….
All done.
We got a great rain last night so hopefully that smilex up early this morning eager to climb.
Sometime you got to do dirty work when hubby’s gone. He’ll thank me.
Maybe not tonight, but he will.
June 15 ~ the day the hedge came down. Let’s see how long it takes.
Wonder if he’ll speak to me before then?
