Tailler les haies.
English version below the pictures
Tailler les haies
Clipping the hedges
Nous avons beaucoup de hautes haies autour de la cour devant et derrière notre maison. Dans le passé, je coupais moi-même toutes ces haies, mais aujourd’hui, je ne peux plus. Ce fut donc une agréable surprise de voir samedi 17 juillet dernier ma fille aînée Carole (la duchesse) venir avec son chevalier Thierry et son fils Simon (notre petit-fils).
Thierry a utilisé mon escabeau historique de 1970, un peu désarticulé mais très adaptable à tous les terrains. La première photo le montre perché sur ce haut escabeau ressemblant à un oiseau bleu volant en haut de la haie ( Carole et Simon tenant l’escabeau )
La deuxième photo montre le travail bien partagé entre eux trois
Le chevalier Thierry a détruit aussi les mauvaises herbes dans le potager et réduit la sauge dans les bordures du jardin envahissant l’espace.
We have many high hedges around the yard in front and behind our house . In the past I clipped all of those hedges myself but nowadays , I cannot anymore . So it was a pleasant surprise to see last Saturday July 17th my oldest daughter Carole ( the duchess ) coming with her Knight Thierry and her son Simon (our grandson) .
Thierry used my historical step ladder coming from 1970, a bit disarticuled but very adaptative to all grounds . The first picture shows him perched on this high step ladder looking like a blue bird flying at the top of the hedge ( Carole et Simon holding the step ladder )
The second picture show the work well shared between them three
The knight Thierry destroyed also the weeds in the veggie garden and reduced the sage in the borders of the garden invading the space.
Après tous ces efforts de la journée, ils avaient besoin d’un bon repos. On voit Thierry le lendemain sur un canapé entouré de ses chiens : un golden retriever et un berger australien. Sans oublier une chatte Maine coon appelée Mary-me. Doux spectacle d’un bon repos bien mérité pour lui, Carole et Simon.
Tout travail mérite récompense.
After all those efforts along the day , they needed a good rest . We see Thierry on the day after on a couch surrounded by his dogs : a golden retriever and an Australian shepherd . Without forget a female cat Maine coon called Mary-me. Sweet show of a good rest well deserved by him, Carole and Simon
All work deseves rewards
Je ne dois pas oublier que pendant ce temps ma femme Janine peignait les volets , préparés par mes soins!
Le travail maintient la santé
I have to not forget to say during this time my wife Janine is painting the shutters . (that I have prepared )
Work maintains health ! 🙂
good jobs well done, and the team effort makes it easier … I bet it feels good to have family help to get all those jobs done! Lovely to see those animals so relaxed! 🙂
Yes Kate; we felt good to get this family help This is very encouraging. ❤
so please for you and Janine, take care kind gent!
This help was heartwarming, Kate.
As always, I enjoyed this glimpse of your family life. Maybe I’m just nosy by nature, but seeing your yard, your home, your family and their beautiful pets, is reassuring that we are kindred spirits.
Yes I think we are kindred spirits, Judy. ❤
We have a high hedge between our house and our neighbor to the north. The neighbor planted them before we moved in here. Ken often trimmed our side of it it–it is about 150 ft. long. Now that our neighbor has retired, and Ken cannot do as much as he used to—just like you— the neighbor takes care of it all once a year. And, I love the picture of Thierry with the pets. I also LOVE the armoire behind Thierry. So beautiful. Looks similar to one I wanted to buy years ago for our living room, but it was too high—or our ceiling is too low! Painting the shutters is a big job! Good work, Janine! So wonderful to see you posting again, Michel!! ❤ from Nancy and Ken
Ken and I have the same limits . In the past I clipped all of the hedges myself but now I cannot anymore
Yes , Nancy, the picture of Thierry with the pets is amazing and indeed the armoire is beautiful ❤
Looks like a wonderful work day.
Yes it was a very encouraging day. While they worked hard I was at the hopital for dialysis . So I was happy to find all this work done when I was back.
I am glad you have kids to help out.
I can say thanks to them.
Good
When we feel weaker we are grateful to get a help.
Yes.
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Mais bon dieu pourquoi que c’est-y que les haies poussent si vite ? Et pourquoi que c’est-y que les mauvaises herbes ne donnent pas des fraises et des tomates ? Le monde est un brouillon !
Bravo Michel et Jeannine et Carole et Thierry et Simon, pas si petit ! Et une douce et souriante fin de journée à vous. Mais est-ce que, par hasard, le berger australien ne serait pas en train de me regarder par dessous ?
Tu as raison, Gilles, on est vite totalement dépassé par les haies , surtout avec l’âge venant.
Le berger australien a effectivement un regard transperçant . je l’ai déjà remarqué . C’est un chien de caractère ! 🙂
Beautiful photos, Michel! 🙂
It seems there is always work to do. 🙂 And you have some good helpers! 🙂
The photo of Thierry and the furry-family-members is sweet! They all look relaxed and content. 🙂
How are you feeling, Michel?
Continued prayers and ❤ to you and all of your family.
(((HUGS))) 🙂
I am trying to feel well, Carolyn! 🙂
Yes I like also the picture of Thierry and the “furry-family members ” as you say! 🙂
And yes also about the helpers . ❤
Those 3 furry-family members could keep a person warm on a cold night. 😉 😀
They are good companions, Carolyn. When Thierry makes a ride with his horse coach they go with him in the car or in walking. Their great pleasure is to go on the shore by the sea. ❤
At our age ladders and step stools are a no no. Beautiful animals he has, lots of brushing I bet.
Janine does not want I use ladders and step ladders. My legs are weaker than before, Bonnie! 🙂
Still impressed by this house and garden of yours. I see it is a family effort to keep up with it!!!! 😍 Blessings! 🙏🏻♥️
Those of our children who can do it helps us with pleasure, yes. ❤
You have trained your children well. Such a relief that they came to help you. Janine keeps busy. What a wonderful picture of those pets. They certainly look like they are well fed and very comfortable…The problem with bushes is that the grow and often need to be trimmed.
Yes it was a relief . Sometime a help is appreciated and is needed, Françoise. ❤
Michel, Your hedge is as tall and long as our one! You have such a wonderful, helpful family. ❤
…and every year the hedges become higher and thicker, Marion!! ❤
Everyone helps to maintain the homestead. I am glad to see you back reporting to us about your days.
Here the weather has been so right for the crops that the corn is standing right foot high, and all vegetables are producing well. Cherries, peaches, green beans, cabbage, etc are in abundance. It is a good harvest!
Michigan looks like heavens , Rachel . Here in France the weather was too much in contrasts to be good for the fields and gardens . But we have to adapt !! 🙂
Well done to your family with their great job of cutting back your hedges. I hope that you are resting during this hot weather that we are having at the moment. I enjoyed watching the Tour of France once again , of course Mark Cavendish from the Isle of Man won the Green jersey
I watched the Tour de France principally from my bed in my dialysis room . And indeed I observed especially Mark Cavendish ‘s behavior in thinking of you , Julie and John ❤
Wonderful to put things to rights – it feels so satisfactory!
I’m afraid my bushes and hedges may never get trimmed this year; every time I think I will be able to tackle it, another bird builds a nest! There is a Robin that finished a nest last week in the lilac right outside our bedroom window, so I thought, fine, I will just need to wait a few more weeks until those eggs hatch & the babies fledge. But then YESTERDAY I saw a lady cardinal pulling out the decorative material I have in my flowerpots and fly into the other side of the bushes from the Robin to build her own nest!
Oh well, when we can get to it, it is going to be a big job. The bushes keep growing!
Having robin and cardinals making a nest not far of your window is a priviledge, Susan . I would like enjoy this too but our hedges and trees are not near the house enough to be observed . At the opposite the neighbor’s cat looks like being a good observer but the birds are clever and good observers too, fortunately. ❤
Lovely post as usual. Love to you and Janine and the whole family! ❤
Thanks my friend Nancy; ❤
Michel, How inspiring to see your family members working together to trim the hedges. Janine is very brave to get up on a ladder. More power to her! I wish you the best possible health, but as long as the brain works, that is the most important thing. Beautiful photos! Love to you and your family.
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You are right, Cheryl, keep our brain is the best of the things when we age. Janine on the ladder is cetainly braver than me ( this is forbiden for me ! 🙂 )
Thanks for this comment ❤
So nice to have the children come to help! I love it when my son comes to do things for me and his wife is my aide and helps me every week!
Your garden is beautiful! Janine looks the picture of health there painting your shutters!
So glad you’re back to posting on Facebook…….we all missed you ❤
I agree, we are grateful to have helping children , Gayle . Yes I am back after a break that was needed . I am glad to be back. ❤
Work and rest – it’s one of the rhythms of life. Thierry looks very satisfied after his hard labour!
I like your thought about rhythm of life , Suzy. ❤
It looks like they all did a good job! I love the scene in photo #3. It looks like a lovely place to put down a blanket and read a good book! Much love you and yours, Michel! ❤
You are right , Caroline, about read a good bol on a blanket in the shadow in the lawn. It was what was done in the past time ❤
You do have a beautiful garden. It is fabulous when the family help you with keeping it good.
The roses are lovely.
I like the roses . We have a hedge with polyantha roses . I have appreciated the help as I cannot work much anymore , Angy. ❤
Well done. So happy they helped out. The dogs (and cat) are beautiful. I love the shutters. Your place is looking great. Hope all is well. Hugs, ❤
Thanks Eliabeth, yes they take lmuch care of their pets (they have also horses )
The shutters are antiq and we keep them with the new ones ❤
Hello Michel.
What a warm-hearted post! I am very glad that you got help from your family. Of which is your hedge? I ask this because we had a small coffee corner of cultivated willow. In summer it was easy to handle, but in winter it was not beautiful. I think that you have not seen it because my post is from 2010. Here:
Coffee corner
Btw, I think that my answer to your comment given today, would be interesting.
Bonne journée. Amitiés, Matti
Notre haie est constituée principalement de thuyas, et plus loin avec les lilas . J ‘ ai aimé ton coin-café . J ‘ ai crée ici un ” chemin des amoureux ” bordé de symphorines 🙂
Bonjour Michel.
Merci de m’avoir répondu. Ici, les gens utilisent aussi le thuyas. On ne trouve généralement pas de symphorines. Je te souhaite un bon dimanche. Amitiés, Matti
Le thuya est robuste et facile à tailler . La symphorine se développe très vite et est envahissante ! 🙂
So good to see you have a lot of help around the yard. Seeing all that work makes me tired!!! LOL!
Beside it is a work without end , Gail ! )
Ça a ete une journée bien remplie mais on est content de voir le changement .l escabeau a rendu service mais il va aller à la déchetterie 😉il reste à couper le bois pour cet hiver …on.vous souhaite un bon dimanche on vous embrasse bien fort
A la déchéterie ? Oh non : Au musée ? oui: 😉
Le travail c’est la santé, nous chante Henri Salvador !
Bravos à vous tous de soigner si bien votre propriété !
Belle image du repos entourés des amis à 4 pattes ensuite !
Amitiés et bel été bien à vous en Picardie,
AM
Merci pour le rappel d’Henri Salvador, Anne-Marie . C ‘est nous qui avons planté cette haie en 1986 en arrivant ici mais maintennt elle nous dépasse .Merci Anne-marie pour ton commentaire
elle est drôlement courageuse ta femme !
bonne soirée à vous ! bises !
Merci Maidy pour le compliment pour Janine.
Amitiés à toi.
Goodness, my hedges are only a meter high! I can’t imagine trying to trim those high hedges! (I don’t like ladders) 🙂 Everything looks good and Thierry certainly deserves his rest with his dear dogs!
Yes, Marica , I have appreciated Thierry, Carole and Simon ‘s work . It is a hard work which I cannot do anymore ..
Had you on my mind this week and prayed for you. 🙂
Just stoppin’ in to ask How are you? And to leave you some (((HUGS))) 🙂 ❤
Thankyou for your kindness, Carolyn. ❤
You’re welcome, Michel!
It is wonderful to have such helpful, loving family, Michel. Everything looks good there.
Much love to you and the family,
Lavinia
Yes , Lavinia, it was an up lifting time !<3
A most welcome pleasure to see your break from blogging is over—and to see that wonderful big house again (and especially it’s being in the loving care of the new generations!)
It’s always a pleasure to read you, Neil .
Hello from Pennsylvania, USA. You were fortunate that they did so much work. It was a big job!
Yes an I was grateful . Thanks for your visit . I will check your blog.
toujours ta famille travaille ensemble – c’est vraiment réconfortant (?) – ça me fait sourire mon cœur ❤
ayant faire 80 ans de travaille si fort, michel – tu mérites aussi un bon repos 🙂
(stp, michel, excuse toutes mes erreurs !!) xoxo
Merci, Marlaine ,pour ton excellent commentaire en Français . Oui on a la chance d’avoir une famille aidante . ❤
It’s so good to have family around and when they help, that’s a bonus. Those hedges look magnificent and it’s great to have someone else cut them. My best to you and Janine and the family.
Thank you, Cynthia . Yes we are relieved to see the hedges cut. Thank you for your wishes .
Th oh s is such a lovely post Michel, I love your gardens and hedges , and being invited in to see your family tending these Beau grounds of yours. Be well my friend. Thinking of you! Love ❤️
Yes we are in the green , Holly ! 🙂 and we love this background . But this has to be clipped from time to time ! 🙂
Of course and such a big job! My childhood home had a huge cherry hedge that would grow as tall as one would permit so it had to be cut back regularly. I’ll never forget when my Dad cut it to six feet and our neighbor cut the side bordering his yard further down to 4 feet. That was not a happy day. 😊❤️
Yes ,Holly, the hedges delight the eye but tire the arm
They definitely delight they eye ! 🪴❤️
You have such a beautiful family! I think that they must enjoy helping to maintain your home. They have many wonderful memories of time spent there!