Mom Trimming Her Forsythia Hedge

My mom has a hedge consisting of beautiful forsythia bushes along a portion of the edge of her lawn, and they grow so quickly that it's a bit difficult to keep them nicely trimmed. She dearly loves working with her flowers, but trimming those massive shrubs by hand is simply too much for her. So...

A few days ago my brother Glen brought his handy hedge trimmer up and we got busy tackling mom's monster hedge with it. The powerful machine made quick work of the task, but right as we were finishing up mom came strolling over and pointed out a place where the top of the hedge was a bit uneven. Before we knew it she had Glen's hedge trimmer in her hands showing us "youngsters" how it's done. Here was my mom...a woman who just turned 79 last week...using a dangerous piece of power equipment while we looked on!

When the job was finally completed to her satisfaction, we moved on to weeding and trimming the shrubbery in her largest flower bed. This time she left the work to us, but she stood close by supervising and giving us a few botany lessons. It was very sunny and hot that day, and by the time we finished up the garden work and climbed onto the shady porch for a rest we were all very tired - including mom. But we got to spend the afternoon with family, so all-in-all it was a great day!

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