Saturday Work

My Saturday started with helping a neighbor unload a pallet of bottles of flavored water. I was gathering laundry and heard noise, so I peeked out the window. I couldn't believe how high these pallets were stacked! I went about my morning for a while longer and decided that I needed to pay it forward. A different neighbor helped us with our dirt and saved us a lot of money a few weeks ago, so to pay it forward I took our handcart across the street and helped another neighbor unload his drinks. You're probably wondering why he has a billion drinks delivered to his home, but he works for a drink company.Then I went inside to pay bills. After a while I decided I hated the bush out front. I grabbed our electric hedge trimmer, a shovel, 2 rakes and the loppers and went to town on the bush. Above is a little bit of the mess I made.

The picture above shows where the bush was; you couldn't see any of the ground before I started. I was doing okay spraying the spiders with Raid as I saw them, but then I saw a black widow and had to draw the line. My body was hurting, so I decided to sit down for a while. Doug got home a short while later and then we cut down and ripped out 2 more bushes. One is (well, was) in the top middle of the picture above and the other is/was to the left of it. They were killing the other bushes and trees around them. My body hurts all over today, but I'm glad the bushes are gone for the most part.

That's about all we've been up to lately. Nothing too entertaining. It's been a busy spring so far and hopefully we can get everything done before the summer is over. I'm hoping to wrap up the last of the backyard work over the next month. We're getting pretty late in the season to plant a garden, but it's been so cold lately that I'm hoping we can get the garden in late and get some fruits and veggies still. Our citrus trees look like they are producing a lot, which is awesome because we've had our orange tree for 3 years and haven't had a single piece of fruit. We also have one tiny tomato on our Topsy Turvey plant.