Life of Wry

Day seven of the yard project and I’m 15 hours in.  Yeah, I track stuff, what can I say.

I drew a schematic of our backyard and broke it down by sections, then made a spread sheet of the sections and detailed the tasks for each (did I mention this somewhere already, feels like I did..), and now I’m chipping away at it, a little every day.  Thought I’d work with Peter on this project, but he went all teenager on me.  So it’s just me.

Today, I continued my assault on zone 12, “the south bed.”   Pictured above is a bit of zone 7–former garden path–and to the left of that, about half of zone 12.

Here’s a shot where zone 12 meets zone 9 (“the west bed”).  I pruned a whole bunch of things that used to be bushes but now are trees.  I don’t know what they’re called, but I like them.  A couple of them have branches that reach 18-20 feet!  Bushes grown amok. They’re just out of view, but I hacked five of eight of these.  Visible in this shot are a couple mock orange and a rogue fig tree, which I think I’ll keep for a while longer.  Not sure it’s fruit bearing yet.

That’s it.  I’ll try to get a picture of the piles in front of the house before the street cleaners come tomorrow.  They’re impressive. Biggest on block for the second straight week!  (But who’s counting?)

Yay me.