January 13, 2006

Shredfully

I gave CP a power leaf shredder for Christmas two years ago. Not being one to rush into things and wanting it to season for a while, just last week, I started trying to assemble it. 

It’s got a separate funnel on top into which go the leaves on their way to the chopper. The instructions say the funnel’s two halves are just sort of to “snap” together. When (and if) assembled, the large end is about two feet across, the small about a foot. After trying ad infinitum to connect it up it single-handedly (aka with two hands), I looked up the website. It had a Chatty-Cathy place, so I asked How on earth? Soon, I got an answer. Karl said I was not the only person who’d asked. I was comforted. He said it usually takes four hands, that is, I presume, it has to be done double-handedly. 

So we tried that, CP and I, and actually used our own four hands to get it together. It was an interesting domestic project, not exactly marital bliss, but closer than usual. The question now, is transferring it intact out to the potting shed where remains the rest of the machine and wondering will it survive the rigors of being attached. 

Realizing that suspense is essential to readable and exciting fiction and that fact (which this is) is stranger than fiction, it seems best that the rest of this saga wait until the ultimate shredder is  not only assembled properly but also carrying out its appointed present-participial task. Stay tuned.

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