Today, I mowed and weed-eated the yard — AND cleaned the house and steam mopped the floors. I have to tell you… sometimes I like having a bigger house with neighbors and restaurants and grocery stores and more nearby — but other times, I miss my little country home.
It was for sure easier to clean and I could’ve decided to plant tomatoes in the front yard and no one would’ve thought a thing about it. We mowed there too, of course, but not because someone next door did.
The yard there was once a field. No matter that trees and grass seed were planted, the front yard started at the road with a huge ditch that we’d spray and set on fire each spring. Usually after that we could keep it mowed… unless we had a lot of rain. When that happened, we’d light it up again once everything dried up.
Here, if the yard goes more than 3 or 4 days without being mowed it makes the neighborhood look bad. Oh! If my neighbors could only see the back yard there would probably be a petition started to get me outta here! Why? Because that’s where Merida digs holes big enough to be buried in! And yes, I’ve thought about it as I’m grabbing the shovel to fill them back in every other day:
Besides the holes in the yard, Merida has also chewed the branches off on one bush to the point she killed it. I’ve got to dig it up. (Never mind the fat brown dog sunning herself right where I wanted to mow.)
One bush survived Merida and the winter and it’s beautiful. Guess this one was just too big for her to murder… I know she tried. Who needs more than one pretty flowering bush in a backyard anyway?
TIL (today I learned): The FBI has struggled to hire hackers because of the FBI hiring rule that the applicant must not have used marijuana during the last 3 years. Read the full article…