Waiting till the heat of summer is upon us is always a good time to head outside and do yardwork. Some people prefer to do outdoor work in the fall or spring, but not us! We wait till it is AT LEAST in the 90’s.
Yesterday, I went up the hill myself, and found this:
Unclear brush.
In the weeds.
So after wacking with various tools agains a bunch of small trees (had long ago passed the weed phase), I got a more extreme tool, my husband Zac. He goes after jobs like this with such a vengeance, he is almost super-hero like. This past winter, when the pecan tree dropped a whole lot of pecans, we thought it’d be “good family fun” to go up to the upper back lot (see above photo) and make the kids help pick up pecans! Can you believe, they didn’t even care? As a matter of fact, they even complained? Somehow waist high thorny bush weeds with pecans buried in them wasn’t enticing to the kids! Bewildered, I concluded they simply play too many video games.
All that, to say, when we left today, completely drenched in sweat and chiggers (to be sure), it looked more like this:
I can see clearly now.
This reminds me, what are we going to do with these old clay drain pipes? They are so pretty!!!
We have another 10 days without the kids here, this place better get straightened up, darnit!!!