Yard Work

The weather has finally calmed down  and cooled down to allow us to work in the yard. Susan pulled out the mower and took care of that job while I did some weed whacking.

Then we prepped ourselves for some messy shrub cleaning.

It was Phase Two of our cleaning out the leaves and droppings at the base of our Arbor Vitaes. I don't know how those things have been getting any water. There were so many years of leaves and bush detritus under them that the ground was totally covered by all the crap. I don't think very much water ever penetrated the ground.

Now they are clean and ready to receive water again. Tomorrow we will be cleaning up that row of leaves you see in the picture above and then we will lay down a new drip line for watering.

All this clean up means that there is going to be a dump run soon. Probably Monday.

I just love having a truck.

Here are some additional photographs of the shrubbery.

This job was long overdue. There were years of leaves under those poor bushes. It was really thick. I think we're going to see those things really start to thrive once we get the water on them.

Of course, we went to the pool once we finished.