LD/Delia - 2 Jungle - 0
Our first point was the cleanup of the vegetation outside of the bar windows (see October's blog post). After that we got the bug to do more, we just needed the right time.
We had a "scorching" weekend (for the end of November that is). With temperatures in the high 50's it was hard to pass up the temptation of tackling some of the overgrowth around our yard. We have a dead tree near the master bedroom whose branch fell, and was leaning on the cable and phone line (which we are having problems with). It had already lost one branch last week, and we feared that the big branch was going to fall as well.
Next to the tree we have a ton of Forsythias. The overgrowth was so bad that the ATT technician commented that he was glad that the problem was the router and not the phone line.
Our first point was the cleanup of the vegetation outside of the bar windows (see October's blog post). After that we got the bug to do more, we just needed the right time.
We had a "scorching" weekend (for the end of November that is). With temperatures in the high 50's it was hard to pass up the temptation of tackling some of the overgrowth around our yard. We have a dead tree near the master bedroom whose branch fell, and was leaning on the cable and phone line (which we are having problems with). It had already lost one branch last week, and we feared that the big branch was going to fall as well.
Before
Before
Next to the tree we have a ton of Forsythias. The overgrowth was so bad that the ATT technician commented that he was glad that the problem was the router and not the phone line.
Before-the air conditioner is in there somewhere! The compost bin is barely peaking out.
Several months ago LD started to remove the Forsythias that wrapped around the east side to the front, but she was only able to remove the front bushes. So we spent a couple of hours on Saturday and a couple of hours on Sunday cutting them down. We managed to cut down over 85% of the "mass". I think one more hour and we would have gotten them all done.
After-the compost bin looks like it is sticking out now!
After-oh look, we do have an air conditioner.
The bad news is that our brush pile keeps growing! We once thought about having a bonfire, but it is so large that it might cause a forest fire!! At some point in time we are going to have to haul it away.
Brush pile
We are also trying to find "green" ways to remove 2 very old, large Christmas trees. The previous owner planted two Christmas trees about 40-50 years ago, and they are now 20-30 feet tall. So we came up with the idea of giving them away to a city, community or organization. They are free to anyone who is willing to cut them down and haul away. We advertised them on Craigslist. So if you know anyone who is interested in very large Christmas trees, let us know!
Tree #1
Tree #2
We have 1.25 acres, so this is only the beginning of our yard work! It is going to be a long journey.
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