It’s a jungle out there

Meaning my yard. I have successfully cut down 6 trees that were growing where they shouldn’t. Not to mention pulling a virtual forest of maple trees out of my garden. The sad part is I love maples. I’d like to ditch that ugly tree in my yard and have a maple instead. I’ve spent days (between the rains) weeding flower beds, garden, and that ugly area beside my garage. My dumpster is full with more piled waiting for trash day so I can fill it again.

I had to trim the neighbors tree that was hanging over my fence. Early on I told him not to because I liked it. I don’t know what kind it is but it has viney things which stretched across the walk and attached themselves to my back porch railing. I thought it was cool. But alas, I discovered when I got the mower out for a long overdo cutting that I couldn’t get it into the front yard! That tree grew a lot in the last 3 weeks. So now it’s all trimmed nicely, my grass is all mowed. I will be ignoring the fact that it was so long that now the whole yard needs raking.

Still a lot to be done, especially beside the garage, and the flower beds and garden STILL need more weeding. I feel like I made a lot of progress though so hopefully the rest won’t be such a chore.

My mood is greatly improved. It wasn’t the work, because I couldn’t get the ambition to tackle it when I felt that lousy. I think the worst was after mostly laying around for 5 days and barely eating (can you eat with a migraine?) that I was all shaky feeling and having low blood pressure issues. I felt like I lost any muscle I finally had managed to get back on. Well, maybe I did but I came back faster than the first time. Thank goodness because I need to do a lot more work outdoors. I won’t go into how the indoors looks :p