Kevin 1 - Kudzu 0
Goddammit... Kudzu is a BITCH.
Yesterday I was charged with clearing out the Kudzu out of the woods in our back yard. It was getting thick and we had about 6 or 7 vines coming down the hill, thru the juniper and into our backyard. I swear you could see this shit grow. These vines were menacing to look at too. It seemed as if you walked too close to them, they would wrap around your leg and drag you up into the juniper and rip your flesh off the bones...
I couldn't let that happen... NO Evil Dead shit going on in my backyard.
I put on jeans for the 1st time since February and my hiking boots and took the hatchet, Ax and big time pruning shears to the woods. I began by pulling up the vines to determine their origin. Of all the Kudzu I had 3 main rooting systems to tackle. I could tell that these were the same places I had cut the Kudzu from in the fall but they had sprouted new vines. I said, I'll fix your ass as I went and got the shovel... Well, my heart started pumping - blood pressure thumping (as the Bananarama song goes) and I tried to dig out these damn roots. Holy Shit. It wasn't going to happen. Kudzu is sooo green and stringy that the big ass pruning shears could not make a clean cut on the vines - it pinced between the blades. Fuckers. So cutting thru it with a shovel ain't gonna happen. The hatchet was ineffective as well, blade just bounced off the big roots BUT NOTHING can escape the Fiskar's AX. That is one bad motha!
Moral of the story is that I have one this battle but the war is definitely not over.
I officially hate all Kappa Sig's and the official plant of Georgia.
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