Stupid garage door opener...

I misplaced the stupid garage door opener for the apt garage again, so I couldn't get the stuff I needed in order to do what I had planned at the house.  In a fit of frustration (and because we are forever losing them), I stopped at Lowe's on the way to the house and bought another set of pruners.  The weather was still in the 40s, if rather gray and cloudy, so I thought I'd just go work on the figs.  The first one went fairly quickly - cleaned up the leaves, took out the dead wood, took off all the tall suckers and called it good.  The next two went much more slowly.  They were larger, denser, taller, and had more dead wood.  There was so much, in fact, that I think I may just cut them back to the ground and let them start over.  It'll put a crimp in getting figs this year, but it needs to be done.  In the process of doing the fourth and last fig, I discovered that it was really two figs very close together.  All we managed to get done on that one was to clean up the leaves.  And yes, I did say "we," because I had help.  The Princess and the Pirate showed up while I was finishing up the first fig, and they helped remove the leaves, and hauled off the branches for over an hour after that.  Pics to follow when I figure out how to get them out of the camera and into the computer.  This is rather difficult because El Jefe cannot find the cable...