TheBanyanTree: A Saturday Outdoors / Dead Dog Tired

[B Drummond]

   This week's saturday found the entire family working outside on one project 
or another.

   My son cut the grass at the front of the house and I finished it by cutting 
the sides and the back.  Yep, it's growing now and the ritual of the weekly 
lawn care ceremony has begun even though all the trees are not yet in leaf.  

   The mimosas are not budding but the sweetgums, the willow, oaks, the china 
berries are all budding and soon to be putting out the leaves. I see azaleas 
with some early buds and they will bloom in the next week.  There's still no 
sign of buds on the dogwoods.

   We trimmed trees, cut back shrubs, cleared brush, threw away junk that had 
accumulated around the back yard over the last year and got things ready for 
spring which arrives officially in our hemisphere in 2 days with the advent 
of the vernal equinox.

  There was two weeks of work to do outside but we managed to do a week's 
worth in a day.  Guess who's tired now?  Yep, us -- the whole of us, in fact.

   The gardenias are trimmed and so is the heavenly bamboo.  Tomorrow I'll use 
the spreader and put out lime and fertilizer on the lawn.  We'll all get back 
at it and, with some luck, and bended backs, a with more than a little 
sweat, and scrapes, and scratches we'll have two weeks of work behind us, done 
in all of two days.


  bd
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