Just Between You, Me, and the Bingo Card: Life Lessons from the Assisted Living Facility

Are you going to be camping outside the front doors to get in?

 

nah, maybe 1/2 hour early to get in line with the walker and cane group.

 

My grandpa would love to go to that show.

 

on the topic of model trains, i never got into them much but i did love slot cars.

 

The smell of overheating slot car hand controllers is pure joy.

 

yes! the local slot car track was my haven. they even had a pool table. ^_^

i had plenty of the small in home versions but nothing beat the real deal with the larger faster scale.

 

Y'all know the hobby town off Havana has a large scale track down stairs

 

Did not know this actually...If only I didn't love forever North of here

 

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Don's Hobbies in Greeley had one on the 2nd floor. Might be before your time though.

It was a sad day when he moved out of that 3 story bldg, partnered up with a tropical fish guy in a low class strip mall and went out of business less than a year later.

 

I got so excited until I noticed that first line was in past tense...Makes me want to break my train set out though. I used to do it every Christmas with my dad and haven't in a while...Might be time to resurrect the tradition

 

And he did show up today. Wind is not an issue with this guy. Balls the size of coconuts.

 

Is this the world's slowest tree chopper downer?

Hasn't he been working on that tree for months now?

Is he eating it?

 

climb up there and show him how it's done.

 

It's sad when the circus all close and they have to find new jobs.

 

I'd just cut it from the bottom, make sure it fell towards the camera, then fix the fence.
One day tops, no climbing involved.

 

but then it wouldn't be a cool story bro.

 

The way I told it it would

 

That makes me wonder,

How many hours does this guy have into this project? That bill must be adding up fast. Surely is would be much more cost effective to take down the fence, drop the tree in the road, and rebuild the fence.

 

That's what I'm saying.
A toothless Beaver could've had it down by now

 

You guys are assuming this is his only job. I'm sure he charges by the job, not the hour.
I think the climbing skills are a hobby that he has managed to incorporate into a profession. He really doesn't look stressed at all.

Most trimmers would charge upwards of $6000.00 to remove a tree like that. My mother had a cottonwood removed last month of similar size that was right at that amount.

He did the one next door in about a week, weather was better and the days were much longer. Assuming $5000.00 for the week, that's not too bad.

Aside from chainsaw maintenance and some gas/ropes, he has no overhead. By himself, he pockets it all except for income tax, assuming he pays it.

And in a very liberal city, the fact that he's quiet and green (not running heavy machinery) prolly means he's booked year around.