feeling accomplished

no more ugly shrubs
Originally uploaded by annethelibrarian.

Yesterday I cut down the picker bush (tree) that was in front of our house, and started in on the ugly juniper. K was thatching the lawn but took breaks to help me do the real gruntwork. We left the juniper about half-done and finished it this morning. After that I was feeling pretty good about the progress so I decided to start in on the bigger shrubs. I thought I'd just trim them down to stumps so we could pull them out sometime in the future, but our awesome neighbor came across the street and offered to help us tow them out with his truck. Woot! The front yard is now free of all ugly shrubs and is a lot closer to what I'd like and eventually we'll use some pavers to do some nice landscaping. Now we're massively sore from all the work we did, but it's definitely worthwhile.

Sunday

Purple Wintercreeper
Originally uploaded by annethelibrarian.

It was beautiful again today and we spent some time in the yard during the morning. We planted the two dogwoods I got a few weeks ago (designed to eventually block the ugly back fence - we'll probably add more of them at some point) as well as the purple wintercreeper short shrubs. We "built" a pseudo-planter (just stuck a piece of cedar in the ground in front of the plants) around them. This is probably a temporary home for the plants but at least they're in the ground now and ready to grow.