Yard work 🏡

It's amazing how yardwork makes you feel during & after it's done. The sense of accomplishment & piece of mind you feel after the work is completed. I admire the view with an Arnold Palmer under my covered front porch.

I love working in my yard. We've had a cool spell the past few weeks, so it's a nice time to work outside. I have one hydrangea that sometimes has pink and blue flowers and this is the year - it's spectacular.

I have box gutters and had to have two sections relined - that's the not so fun part.

If your wife and daughter helped you, would that make them The Yardbirds?

(I can't believe it's taken me 2 days to notice a pun here.)

It's only the start of June and I've already cut the grass five times. Always brings a feeling of accomplishment!

Boy, did I time it right today. I wanted to sweep all the seed hulks and twigs off my patio before it rained again. Once finished, the thunderstorms moved in barely 10 minutes after I came inside. We got 1.5 inches of rain in less than an hour and it's nearly 20℉ cooler than it was an hour ago.

I've been doing yard word for the past couple of weeks, off and on. I have overgrown areas of the property that I want to transform into a mowable lawn. I've been cutting down the smaller stuff (such as maple and white birch saplings) with a weed eater with a metal blade and loppers and the bigger stuff with a chainsaw. There are also stumps I've had to carve down with a chainsaw to get them low enough to the ground so a lawnmower won't get hung up on them. It's hard not to hit dirt when doing that, which dulls a chainsaw very quickly, so I've had to sharpen the blade about 6 times in the past couple of weeks.

I have a small section left to clear, but the grass is still wet from rain last night, so I have to wait a couple more hours to do that. Then I have to rake up the cut weeds, excise any sapling stumps I missed, and it will be ready to mow, which I plan to do on Saturday along with the rest of the lawn.