You Don't See That Every Day

G and I are considering a new project. Of course, the first one isn't done. When are home projects ever done?! G is making good progress on the upstairs. He and The Boy and S-girl worked to put on the last layer of mud. Hurrah - texture and paint are in sight! But the new project we are thinking of (and we both came up with this separately) is the Front Yard. When we moved in here, the previous owners had raised beds where they grew vegetables. It was quite a mess, no grass.  Over the years we have added and taken away plants. And once again we're at a stage of 'remodel'. G did some trimming of the wisteria recently - it was so overgrown and badly needed a 'haircut'.  So we have the wisteria, which we are thinking of cutting back, wayyy back. The bamboo needs some pruning. The cherry is tree is so beautiful when it is in bloom. The arborvitae hedge ... that's one we don't agree on. I like having the hedge of priva...

I think the guys have been keeping a secret from me all of my life. And I think I might have just discovered a key to it. Power Tools. > howl < They are So much fun! Seriously, why didn't I ever get to play with these before? OK, I have used a power-screwdriver  before  ... that was some small fun. (**update, it was a power-drill, my mistake. I couldn't even think of the right word!) But today I decided to try and get a little bit cleaned up outside in between rain showers. The side yard is kind of messy b/c of the remodel. I didn't want to get all muddy and wet by pulling the weeds out by hand, so I grabbed the weed-eater. The battery powered, very mighty, powerful Tool. And after figuring out how it works - which is pretty easy - I got to work. I had such fun whacking down those weeds and tall grass I looked for more places to use that Power Tool. Ooh - the raspberries! Earlier in the spring we took out one row of our raspberries. It had just become too crazy, ...