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May 14, 2008

TACKLE it TUESDAY 5-13-08

Filed under: TACKLE it TUESDAY — grandi13 @ 10:28 pm



I know that it is Wednesday, but I spent the night at Mother’s house last night to save on gas, so I did not post yesterday.

I still have not finished my desk, but I have been very busy on my days off. See this post and it will give you an idea of just how busy I have been and how much I still have left to do.

After I get all of the shrubs cut back, I would like to weed the flower beds. We will see. That may be something the tenant has to do.

What job did you tackle this week? Visit 5minutes4mom here to see what others have done.

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REPTILE-SNAKE

Filed under: FAMILY, HEALTH — grandi13 @ 10:16 pm

I may or may not have told you DH killed a chicken snake the day of my second yard sale. A cousin’s husband told me yesterday that he had seen a big one the other day when he was at the house.

Today his grandson was there talking with me about shingling part of the roof and I walk around yet another jungle and guess what I see. Right! a chicken snake just lying there very, very still. I tell the guy I will go around front and get the shovel so that HE can kill it for me. He says I have something better, my gun is in the car. This snake waits patiently for the guy to go to his car get his shotgun and blow his head off. (The snake’s head, not the guy’s)

This and the fact that the shrubbery against the house ruins it, is the reason for cutting back all of the shrubs. If this snake had been where I was working, I would not have seen it until, I was right on top of it then I would have had heart failure.  IT just as easily could have been a poisonous  snake.

Enlarge this pic by clicking on it and see the cleared area at the edge of this bed under the dogwood limb and the snake was stretched out here.



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STILL MORE SHRUBBERY

Filed under: WORK/JOB — grandi13 @ 9:55 pm

I told you in a previous post that DH and I worked very hard last Friday trimming shrubbery at Mother’s house. I was not kidding. Here are pics of the amount I burned yesterday and how the shrubbery next to the sides of the house looks now. We still have the outer side to do.





There is still more shrubbery to be trimmed. I have cut back shrubbery for 2 days this week and still am not finished!! This is just one of the areas that I have attacked. Yes, I feel as if I am at war with the shrubs. These are before pics of what I did today. I am still just using the loppers—works for me.



These are the after:


This is the yard side of the above jungle. I still have about 3 feet to do on this one and this area will be finished, but there is still plenty left to do.


This is a group of camellias and a few other shrubs that I will work on next, maybe tomorrow.


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