Catwalker

It's amazing how much you can change over the years (and decades) I can now see how when I was a teen ager I was such a lazy lout. But now however, I am thoroughly enjoying the yard work I am doing on the old homestead. When I was a kid, I hated doing it and tried as hard as I could to get out of it.  Just as it waits for no man, Time and tide also changes things - especially the heart. I guess it is a benefit of age to enjoy doing hard work, when your body is rejecting it.

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Looking better.

But, to quote Antonio Banderas from Mask Of Zorro:

This is gonna take a lot of work!

I am enjoying this, I don't get to do much
physical work anymore, and I need it.

This is roughly the
same angle and location
I took the first photo in
the first yard care posting
from and using the same
camera.

Looks different, doesn't it?


There is a lot of stuff buried in the tall grass and weeds
which was invisible before, such as the 40 gallon
oil drum (used as a burn barrel) in the picture above,
another oil drum (on its side elsewhere) and the old
garbage can you can see below.

Going to bring in a pick up truck to haul away the
stuff in August. Which will make the yard work even
easier to accomplish.


There is still a whole lot of work to be completed, I
wore my work boots with the steel shank and toes
today, as I didn't want to wind up with a broken
ankle in an old post hole.

Another shot from the
same location as another
photo, with minor changes




This area is behind the pile
of stuff in the above photo.

This is the general area with
all of the post holes




Nice to see things coming together, I will soon have
to start doing some work with a pick/mattock combo.

I am gonna be sore afterwards. :(

But it will be worth it. Next season, the lawn will
be easy to care for.

じゃね

東京へ行った時に、日本の教会へ行ったんです。
下北沢聖書教会に行きました。
下北沢会衆は親切です。音楽はとても良かったです。
この教会へすごく戻りたいんです。
2014年の春は日本に戻ると思っています。

2012年05月20日に











 下北沢聖書教会の前に

じゃまた

More lawn care. :)

Same area but from the other
end. Definitely looking cleaner.
Haven't done as much in this
area as I would like because of
this:


This is the area of yard which
dwells on the other side of all
that tall grass and vines on the
one side of the other photos.



It needs a lot of work.

(Still)

I suspect the yard will take the majority
of the summer (two hours, once per week) to
complete. We cut the main lawn first, then I work
on the forest back here.

I also need to take a pick, hoe and garden rake to some
spots in the back, they resemble the surface of the moon
or Mars - and running the lawn mower over them
is difficult if not impossible. There are also post
holes where posts and poles have been removed
or rotted away and are ripe for stepping in and breaking
an ankle....

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