wolfsbride

So last night we, myself and a handy neighbour, took down the wooden trellis. It's just as well I did not attempt to take it down myself. What I thought was just two nails holding it up in the corners was actually SIX NAILS. Two in the corners, and four more across the top. And they were HONKING LONG NAILS. I had no idea nails came in that size. It didn't help that the nails were apparently finishing nails so they had no heads really.

We ended up with me holding it steady and my neighbour standing on a chair to get better leverage and then using the claw of the hammer to pry the wood of the trellis away from the wood of the divider behind it. At one point I thought we were either going to break the trellis or break the divider. However, careful and judicious rocking managed to ease the nails out and out and out and out.... well, you get the idea.

Also, Monday's wind storm damaged a couple of branches on my rose bush and it looks like a part of the hydrangea may have been hit as well. I noticed one side of it is dragging on the ground. The wind must have been really bad because the hydrangea is actually in a fairly sheltered spot.