{"id":23689,"date":"2023-03-25T12:25:01","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T16:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=23689"},"modified":"2023-03-25T12:25:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T16:25:47","slug":"episode-786-electricity-and-the-python-grip-of-wisteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=23689","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 786 ELECTRICITY AND THE PYTHON GRIP OF WISTERIA"},"content":{"rendered":"
EPISODE 786    ELECTRICITY  AND  THE PYTHON GRIP OF WISTERIA<\/p>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
March 25, 2023<\/div>\n

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A python is a snake that crushes its victims in a slow death as its body Curls tighter and tighter.<\/div>\n
We have\u2026.had\u2026a python like plant in our garden for at least 30 years.  A cute plant that is<\/div>\n
supposed to flower in brilliant hanging purple blossoms.  Never happened.  Each year we<\/div>\n
waited. No flowers.  But slowly and silently the WISTERIA tightened its grip on our outdoor <\/div>\n
lamp post\u2026.twisted coils reaching ever upward until a tendril clamped on our electricity line sit looped in<\/div>\n
from the street.   Seemed light at first.  But the light grip became a twisting chokehold that<\/div>\n
got heavier and heavier\u2026longer and longer as the tendrils crept towards our house.  Once there<\/div>\n
the python (wisteria) pierced the house wall pulled off the eavestrough and got so heavy that<\/div>\n
the power line sagged to the point we feared it would break.<\/div>\n

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If the power line snapped then a live and very dangerous electric cable would fall<\/div>\n
directty on to our car and truck in the lane.  Som  living thing could get killed and it would<\/div>\n
not be the wisteria.  I got a 15 foot length of 2 x 8 to push up the wires.   Actually aiding <\/div>\n
and abetting the wisteria.   The eavestrough nails popped out.  Then A black squirrel family<\/div>\n
found comfortable home beneath our roof.  <\/div>\n

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This was bad news.  What to do?<\/div>\n

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RESCUE CREW ARRIVES\u2026.BIG TIME.<\/div>\n

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I sent an urgent note via email to our electricity provider, Alectra Utilities, and overnight<\/div>\n
action was taken.  Bill Campbell and his two man crew arrived with a wisteria fighter.<\/div>\n
The truck must ave cost $150,000 or more.  A huge thing with an articulated bucket<\/div>\n
that could put a man above our tree canopy\u2026.high above the wisteiria.   The wisteria fighter<\/div>\n
had weapons.  Special chain saw, heavy duty wire cutters, hammers, etc.   <\/div>\n

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So we were able to kill the wisteria we think.  But the root remans and will likely seek<\/div>\n
to not out tendrils this spring.   I am not a violent man so i have given Marjorie a <\/div>\n
heavy duty brush cutter to snip off  the tendrils.<\/div>\n

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If necessary I will call Bill Campbell and his crew again.  Cheerfu bunch.<\/div>\n

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How do  I know they are cheerful?   By one side comment. <\/div>\n

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\u201cGlad to see you came to do battle with the wisteria python.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cTake an hour or two but  we will get it\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cI will try to stay out of your hair,\u201d  I said to Billl<\/div>\n
\u201cThat will be easy,\u201d hollered one of the crew.<\/div>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cBecause Bill doesn\u2019t have any hair.\u201d<\/div>\n

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Sure enough when Bill took of his hard hat there were only a few tendrils of hair.<\/div>\n
Just the right man to wage a war against the wisteria python.<\/div>\n

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alan<\/div>\n

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Not my problem any more.<\/div>\n

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We have hired this bull dog to keep wisteria in check\u2026.vicious<\/div>\n

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