Hack and Chop

During a conversation with family earlier this week, NorthernMommy alleged that NorthernDaddy had chopped, hacked, and mutilated her rose bush.

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NorthernDaddy would like to set the record straight.... While there is photographic proof that he did once obliterate a rose bush (it was way too big and dead-centered on the usable part of the yard), the rose bush currently in question is still alive and well.

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In Daddy's defense, "Rose", as she will be named, was becoming quite the belligerent plant. She was constantly reaching out beyond her boundaries and trying to take what wasn't hers. She had started to obscure the propane tank, was attempting to sit in the Adirondack chairs, and -more than once- tried to beat up NorthernDaddy and steal his lunch money.

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NorthernMommy left the house one morning for a few hours, and LittleNortherner wouldn't come outside (gotta play Legos), so that left no one to protect Rose. A few minutes with the loppers and pruners, and the plant had been tamed....

 

...not hacked and chopped.

 

(Posing like he did any work....)

 

(In the interest of full disclosure, NorthernDaddy will admit that he has a long-standing hatred of rose bushes. He does not know the root of these feelings, but is quite sure that - if he ever needs professional psychiatric counseling - they will be the reason he ends up in therapy...)