The Great Outdoors Or Busting Your Butt In the Yard

Today was another fabulous spring day, Sunny with the high in upper 60s with a slight breeze. Only one thing to do with a day like today, yard work! Our property borders a township park in the backyard. The layout is our yard, the park woods which goes about 50 yards back before it slopes downward another 50 yards, to a walking path around a spring feed pond and then the rest of the park. The property line was a mess of sticker plants, wild vines (some poison ivy) and scrape trees that grow really fast and can take over an area in no time. We cleared about 5 ft back where the stickers where hurtful when I would cut the grass. Pruned any branch that would be in my way and then chipped everything. I now need to spray the area with a kill everything spray to keep it clean. There is still one section that needs to be worked on but there is only so much that can be done in day. Luckily my Mom stopped by around luchtime and gave us a good reason to stop and clean up for lunch. After lunch I thought about getting on the mower and cutting the grass but that idea went away when I decided to drain the hot tub. The hot tub water reached the point that I couldn't keep it clear anymore, so it had to be replaced. Since I was draining it, we replaced the filters in it and cleaned all the walls. We only filled it about a third before we left to have dinner at the Rhotinis with JoJo, Dawn, the boys and Bonnie and Lorraine. It was a nice evening with friends, which is always filled with laughs.