A Couple of Weekends

[dxmachina]

My legs are sore, my back aches, and my right index finger hurts when I move it. Yes, I've been playing volleyball

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[arliss]

We (for values of we meaning he did the actual and I provided moral support) just yanked out the decades-old random "bushes" in the front of the house. There were three, one male and female of the same species that dropped black smooshy berries and trashy leaves all over and I'm glad they're gone. A hosta-wannabe ground cover that's nearly impossible to eliminate, so most of it was grubbed out. The row of concrete wall stones that edged the bed were embedded vertically in the asphalt that edges the bed, like a serried row of tiny tombstones. They have been pried loose, and joined by a pallet of their brothers, and will be laid horizontally, as the lord intended, and stacked two or three high to make a low wall edging the bed. Which will be sprayed with herbicide to thwart the creeper, mulch cloth laid end to end, and covered in small gravel. At leisure, then, we'll space large planters along the gravel and fill with pretty flowering things and good-smelling herbs. And possibly a St. Francis statue, a meditatin Buddha, a temple lantern

[dxmachina]

You and H have far more ambition than I do. The other juniper is going to go, but I think the arbor vitae will get a stay until I see how the replacement plants for the junipers work out. There will definitely be mulch cloth.