April 7, 2009

Spring time yard work

The first Spring weather came last weekend and we spent as much time as we could cleaning the property. Our house is pretty small and we were all getting cabin fever by early February. Even Alden would stand on the sofa and gaze out the front window to our snow covered lawn. The week was warm enough to get rid of all but the highest piles of snow, and even though Saturday was misty-rainy I put Alden in the kiddy backpack, trimmed the fruit trees, raked all the leaves we missed from the previous year and cleared the sand off the lawn edge. I also got to raking and clearing the side flower beds which we haven’t touched since we bought the house.

Sunday was beautiful and sunny. Ilana did some weeding while I continued my raking and pruning. It was nice to get things in better shape. Big rains will be coming in April and its nice to have the land ready for the rain instead of a mucky-leafy-sandy mess.

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