Tag: yard work
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free to a good home
Somebody grabbed my lawn mower yesterday afternoon, threw it in his truck, and drove away with it! Watching from inside the living room, My Darling B and I cheered and waved as they loaded it up. I bought a new lawn mower last weekend and did what everyone else does when they want to get Read.
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chipper
It’s an electric wood chipper and it can turn all our yard waste into garden mulch. Well, maybe most of it. Okay, some. Because if I wanted to shove all our yard waste into it I would have to use every spare minute from now until the snow flies again, and I don’t know how Read.
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unhibernating
I got my bike down out of the garage attic yesterday afternoon and took her for a spin for the first time this season, just to limber up the legs a bit, and I don’t think I’ve ever felt regret more keenly than I did that day. Really, I didn’t know how out of shape Read.
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deadwood
December 10, 2009: A crazy powerful snowstorm hammers the Madison metro area: The snow was heavy and wet. It clumped up on trees like badly-applied Christmas flocking and tore branches off all over town. The lilac in our back yard was quickly overwhelmed, but it wasn’t until a few weeks later that it became apparently Read.
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felled
I spent the afternoon trimming branches off some of the bushes in the yard that got hammered pretty badly by the monster snowfall we had back in December. After having a look at the damage to the great big cedar in the front yard I figured it had to come down completely; the problem was, Read.
This Is Drivel 