Ficus Tree Root...

This ficus tree in the back yard needs regular trimming.

Noticed that one of the roots has actually grown through the brickwork near the tree and is lifting the bricks...

View of the lifting bricks...

Started digging around the root...

Used a small axe to cut through the root.

Cut all the way through...

Also cut through the root on the other side of the bricks when it goes back into the dirt...

Cut all the way through...

Need to figure out how to remove the root from the bricks.

 

Shadow -- Part 18

 

MGB visit to the market...

Took the MGB to the supermarket.

It's amazing how small the car is.

The parking space lines illustrate how narrow and short the car is.

In the opposite sense, it shows how big (especially tall) today's cars/SUVs are...

 

Shadow -- Part 17

 

Yet more Bougainvillea trimming...

Usually end up with a pile of larger branches at the end of each trimming session...

Would make good fire wood.

After about 1.5 hours of trimming...

Many of the vines/branches went through the lattice work so it's difficult to trim and to get it free...

The bougainvillea is looking pretty thin...

Had to stop here.

Ran out of green bin space...

 

Shadow -- Part 16

 

Bayern Munich (Munchen) vs. Dortmund

They showed a Bundesliga game on over the air TV (ABC, channel 7 on Saturday morning).

It was broadcast live (night time in Germany).

It was nice to see a different league (usually watch English Premier League on NBC, channel 4, or Telemundo, channel 52, via Over the Air).

These two guys were pretty impressive in the game.

It was a good game.  Dortmund jumped out to a 2-0 lead within the first 10 minutes.  But, over the next 80, Bayern came back to score 4...