May 18, 2012
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whoops, big bite.
I’ve just spent 12 hours for a half job edging my long side yard. whoops, big bite. hard to chew.
now the problem here is many fold- I’m moving from an apartment and thus don’t own many tools and live on a fixed income so like mid month emergency purchases- um, “say no go” *hall and oats* So, with an hors d’ouvres fork, a busted broom, a snow shovel, a spade, a set of “loppers” and a mini rake I’ve found the volume of a passenger car’s worth of brush/veggie matter and DIRT! I got a lady drive by lookin’ nice but I found the endges of the driveway – there was 3 feet surface dust enough to grow sod. the side walk was worse as it had 5 inces in some spots tall rise over the sidewalk and that’s a LOT of dirt spill over. a lot. now compound this that I can’t see. this means no I can not gauge edges and lines. I’m sorry this is just isn’t a skill- believe me felt very sorry doing an archeological dig to find the sidewalk… so many hours in with many edges discovered, I could finally pull out the shovel. in case you’re wondering the volume of dirt- the driveway was 42 gallons of sod/dirt alone- no, I did NOT finish this in one go- but I did mark my piles and can shovel and sweep and lopper party a car’s worth of shitty fucky you bastard elm shoots tomorrow. I mean I had half a sidewalk!- but cut the bastard back off the sidewalk and it’s all twigs so yet another raze to the ground job is in progress. bthe arms are on fire to my elbows. oh and another joy was seeing a fork bottom work est part of the project was my brother having a coniption fit of how I chose to aproach no tols and it’s just gotta get done… fork works edger doesn’t. hose no work bucket makes mud…stupid broke broom slow but effective. well, sleep is imparative. I ran out of light so tomorrow picture I have one before with the nice but improperly placed leavs wall,…edgelessness of that side – the I have a pile picture of the brush down- tomorrow youll see something called an adge. I didn’t want the leaves wall down but ther just wasn’t and hope of trimming to not kill bicyclist heights… sad. even trash trees have a green beauty. so yeah tomorrow the picture version of what the hell I’m talking about.
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Oh yeah, those big outdoor projects we bite off more than we can chew. I spent the better part of my day on my knees weeding and planting raspberries, blueberries, and garlic.
I’ve been enjoying beer once again.
@godfatherofgreenbay - liquor joint closed out of beer snaps fingers
raspberries, blueberries and garlic mmmmm. maybe even together 
Now I know why I live in a tiny upstairs apartment. There is no dirt any where that I have to worry with. Well, except for that fine sandy stuff that seems to materialize on everything two seconds after you’ve dusted. Reading all that you’ve done made me TIRED… Goodness. Yet it sounds like you are making wonderful headway and that is reason to pat yourself on the back.
Hmmm, I know this sounds very strange, but the combination of raspberries, blueberries and garlic mixed together made me wonder exactly what that would taste like. Perhaps I shall give it a wee try and see what happens.
Hope you got some rest and are ready for the next attack. **hugs…
@MzSilver - try it with a bit of soy… it’s purdy much my teriyaki halmarks to say this- but , I’m capable of raspberry wasabi, cranberried sweet heat, tequilia orange, maple, actual basic teriyaki which is necessary sometimes * teriyaki is sugar and soy sauce as if soy sauce needs any help burning
oh and be bold woman- ths one can make even a dressing. 
You did some fine hard work there, got some exercise, and the payoff is an accomplished job that you best damn show us a picture of! But I can picture it from what you’ve said so far, and it sounds like you started with a forest and turned it into suburbia. Your sidewalk is now safer, too. Anyway, I hope you are proud of your hard work. You should feel amazing about it even with all the sore muscles.
@sleekpeek - it is the wrong kind of sore muscles tha mean 4 hours more sleep but nnh yah I proud ooah!