Winter Pruning

Why is it that these before and after pictures of the old girl remind me of the time I discovered wee Meggy had made it to church without her unders on? She's just so exposed!

In the bottom photo you can see that our sprinklers froze on (whatever that means). So water froze onto the sidewalk in layers each time the sprinkler ran over it until we had literally 2 solid inches of ice. The kids and I had a grand time "skating" on it until our wet blanket of a neighbor suggested we salt it immediately and post signs so nobody gets hurt, and that we might want to fix our broken sprinkler. Why didn't that occur to me? I clearly am not meant for city life...