My Sissy is Home!

 Yes, my Sissy came home about 4:00 yesterday afternoon and I have missed her terribly.  She looks wonderful and rested.

I spent the night at her place last night so we could catch up and now I am home doing my chores.

The weather has been 100 degrees the past three days, and I have managed to work the past two in the yard for a couple of hours, but very early.

I am making some progress.

So here

is the report!

The area where the parking pad will go.  I have four large yard containers (two borrowed from a Neighbor) that I will fill at least half full tomorrow early and hopefully this pile will diminish.  It used to be a mountain, and it has taken six weeks so far to get rid of all of the old mulch. The problem with mulch is it is very heavy and if I overfill the containers the trucks won't lift it! Once the mulch is cleared the heavy dirt will be moved into the yard and rototilled in. We will then cut up the heavy yard cloth and get it to the dump.

I have finished the alley side with leftover blocks and planted what Iris I wanted to keep.  We shall see if they come up next year! Still have six bags of red mulch to dispose of, but that is for another day!

I need to lay at least two more bags around the roses on the side and hope to get to that tomorrow.

Then I took more block and cleaned up behind the garage on the back alley!

Got rid of a lot more river rock, waste not want not.  I will continue down the alley of the abandoned house as well and use white stone as border and river rock as filler.

No one seems to want our rock, and it will cost a great deal to have it hauled away, so I am dispersing what I can and saying prayers that someone will come and take to leftover.  Time will tell!

Now this rock pile will go down further as I finish the abandoned garage project!

I do know that the dump will take the broken cement blocks etc., but not the river rock, so I will talk with the corner Neighbor when they return and see if I can place it behind their garage where their garbage cans go and this will keep the weeds down.  I did this under our cans and spray the weeds, and it looks neat and clean.

Who said an alley has to be ugly?

Now onto the landscaping rock, that I am waiting for someone, anyone to take.  It is lovely rock and would cost a fortune to buy. I think it is so hot at the moment that people just do not want to go outside!

The large blocks to the left will be taken to the dump.  Now that I have Sissy's SUV this will be possible.  The long white rock will be used on the abandoned Houe garage.  So slowly but surely, we are plugging along.

Today Is Olivers 5th birthday so I must run to McDonalds and get Him a gift card which is my go-to for the greats.  Sissy will be going up to Moscow later today for a pizza party and will take it for me.

I took porcupine meatballs out of the freezer and will make those tonight with a beefy rice for dinner.

We have to eat our freezers down and Sissy's garden is coming on strong, and we will need to process and freeze.

The temps will drop tomorrow to low eighties and that I can live with, so I hope to get a boat load of work in the yard done tomorrow and I see several runs to the dump this weekend.

Now I am off to pay some bills and run some errands.

Hope everyone has a marvelous day!

Hugs,

Kay

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