to clip or too clip.. you decide..

I needed this...:

https://www.walmart.com/ip/FISKARS-Compact-Extending-Tree-Pruner/23703435

I'd been looking for one for the past two years... We had branches close to the house and I was planning to use a different approach to clipping them, but then spring became summer and there just seemed like no way to get it done the way I was wanting it.. So i waited.. I found these clippers earlier in the summer and decided I would get them.. These I'm not sure they are what I got, they are close.. The blade faces up rather than down.. I read the reviews and wasn't impressed with them, and really thought I wouldn't get them.. But i needed them and when the price was nearly twenty dollars off I decided I'd get this.. At just twenty dollars and a bit more I thought the saw part wouldn't get used much, the reviews were not very good for that part but what I wanted it for was to trim the smaller branches anyway..  There was a strict warning on the packaging DON'T USE ON A LADDER...  Why not??  Well it get very obvious why not.. Especially when you actually do use it while on a ladder..  There was a small branch just out of reach of using it flat footed.. The branch remained out of reach with the step ladder and was as well out of reach with the extension ladder...  Gonna have to rethink that one...
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Shows I watched recently..   With the Olympics it was tricky to see many shows but..  here is some of what I saw.. In no particular order.. 

Survivor with Pierce Brosnan and Milla Jovovich was a fairly good albeit somewhat predictable flick... 

St. Vincent with Bill Murray as an old crotchety old war vet..  When it came time for the kid to decide who he thought should be a saint...  Vincent was his choice and when you find out why you'll understand why this movie is so great..

Pandemic was all over the place with the story line, the plot ...  Watching the movie was like watching three movies before it.. Why did I watch it??  Rachal Nichols was the best reason however you never got to see her ... all of her, you really only got to see some of her..  Oh well..  The world ends and the zombies win.. Isn't that the way it normally goes..

A Lonely Place To Die...  Yikes a movie about climbing mountains... Sort of.. This movie is sort of like Cliff Hanger.. Kind of anyway.. The initial scene with the three on the face of a mountain and things going sideways made me think this is identical to Cliff Hanger.. But then it chilled out and was less mountaineering and more about another storyline all together.. But it is quite good.. 


The last one here is..  Not a movie but rather a  series..

Stranger Things.. This is like Poltergeist on steroids... And so far, i'm three episodes in, it looks identical to poltergeist as I think of them communicating through white noise channels on the tv set and radio.. This series is set in the poltergeist era of the 80's, because lets face it, poltergeists were more prominent back then..  But once you have see one poltergeist you've seen them all.. Or have you.. This is set in the christmas time of the year, so yeah, this is even set when poltergeists are the most active and prominent.. I mean.. I guess..  But I will admit, I do let this get to me because.. Well it's more fun to get into being spooked than it is to watch and see the upcoming gag as they seem to be teleprompted from beyond..  ya gotta like some odd shit every now and then...

Other shows I'm watching.. That train show.. umm... Hell On wheels.. Initially when I watched this it was via torrent but I was watching on the computer elsewhere, mostly babysitting my nephew a few years back so I wasn't able to watch it closely so some of the storyline was blurred...   Also I could have watched from where it left off but like another show, I thought going from the very start would fill me in on the story better.. And so far it has... Another show I just ended as the Olympics started Friday Night Lights.. I had seen it last year about May and so it wasn't that long ago.. Why watch it again?? It was a really good show although on second viewing it was very predictable.. Oh well..   Another show I am just starting is Royal pains and while I as well completed the series up until the latest shows it seems like a fairly good idea to rerun it to get to that point again... The Republic of Doyle will likely be rerun this winter.. I really liked that show but he got hit in the head a lot and by the end of the show should have been more a slobbering idiot...


Badge Henry