"We are good to go." -- I keep hearing that in my head.
I have learned after quite a few costly and forehead slapping, head banging mistakes over the years
that when pruning, a visual confirmation of exactly what you will be cutting with the pruning tool is essential. Too many times, I have cut by feel or what *looked* like where the branch or vine or leaf would be growing from behind something obscuring it, only to discover that I managed to cut off the main vine or the better or the healthy branch, etc.So just when I'm about to prune off a diseased tomato or cucumber leaf, or an apple branch, or snip a fruit stem to harvest, a voice sounds in my head -- usually a sort of impersonal, officious voice -- it's sometimes female and sometimes male -- I don't know why... (lately, it's sometimes Mission Control's southern drawl from Oblivion
)"Do you have visual confirmation?"
... I stop, ease the pressure on the grip of the pruners or pruning saw ... (Do I *HAVE* visual confirmation?) Most of the time I do -- I already looked.... But sometimes, I realize I didn't
--- There's a leaf in my face or something is covering/obscuring the point where I'm about to cut. So push that away, get an actual look at WHERE I am going to cut,...then... "We HAVE visual confirmation. We HAVE visual confirmation."
"We are good to go."
..."WE ARE GOOD TO GO."
...except the last is always in Jodie Foster's slightly desperate voice in Contact when the mission is aborted the first time.
...yep... Too much TV.
