Notebook

Yesterday evening Roy and Caroline came over to help trim the bushes and
trees one the edge of our yard to make way for the fence that will be
put up in June.

I didn’t have a clear idea of how much cutting I wanted to do, but we
worked out that it would be best to clean up to the edge of the ditch.
Someone had put up a bird house on a tree just on the other side of the
ditch — a place that would have been on the edge of the yard years ago.
So it seem appropriate to cut the brush back to that point.

There’s still more that can be cut, but we had more limbs than would fit
on the side of the road, and it was more than could be done in one
evening. But we got space cleared for the fence, and that was the most
important thing.

MDF was helping “direct” the work. She had a twig that she would
wave at someone walking by while she shouted, “Stop, stop.” Eventually
I got her to say, “Go, go,” too, so she wouldn’t be holding up work. 😉

We have much more yard on Campbell St than we did on Valor Drive. Now
it’s not as much as we had in the trailer on Brown Road, or maybe even
not as much as Richlands Hwy, but it’s more than I’ve been used to
mowing for the past few years.

So CDF and I have been thinking about getting a riding mower, but I
kept balking at the price — nine hundred dollars is a lot of money.
But I finally decided to get one, after realizing it was going to take
at least three hours just to push mow the yard (not including time for
trimming/weed-eating). So we got one on sale from Sears.

I mowed the lawn Tuesday night (in between showers). Of course, it took
less time and was a lot easier. On as side note, it has a great turning
radius (or what ever that’s called).

“Bunny, where are you?”

There have been two brown bunnies visiting our back yard (to eat the clover). We normally see them in the late afternoon or early evening. Some times they even come in the yard while we’re outside, and MDF loves to follow them back to the woods at the edge of our yard.

A few days ago (and again yesterday) we walked back to the trees to look for the bunny, but while we could hear it hopping around, we didn’t see anything.

A few weeks back CDF bought some flowers from a nursery near Wallace. We had great trouble planting them in the front flower bed — it appears that the previous owners decided to cover the beds in crushed brick, then when they were tired of that, pine bark, and then finally a layer of pine needles. Needless to say, it was tough to dig a hole in, much less find enough dirt to put the flower in. But we mananged and now we have some pretty gerber daisies, and other flowers out front.