With today’s heat (we hit 32C today, and it stayed there for hours), I wasn’t able to get any work done in the trees and bushes until past 8pm!  Even then, it was about 28C when I first started.  As I write this, we’ve dropped to 25C, so it’s still quite warm.

I continued to work in the row of old lilacs I had been working on last, and I think I’m pretty much done now.  By the time I stopped, it was too dark to take pictures.  There is still clean up to do; the piles of what I cut and pulled away need to be cleared out of the yard, and the ground needs to be raked up of the many, many twigs and who knows what is in among the dead leaves.  I wasn’t too surprised to find the odd piece of garbage at the based of trees.  Things blow in from all over, and once caught, no one would have seen them to clear them out.  The oddest thing I found, though, was the tray from a Hungry Man dinner.  My dad loved his Hungry Man dinners!  But how did a tray end up buried in leaves in the bushes?  It’s not the first one I’ve found, either.  I found one buried in the tall grass when I was mowing along the driveway.  I can’t even suggest they came from the pile outside the yard that was being used as a garbage dump, because of how far it is, and the face that there are rows of trees and fences in between.

After this section, I will start working my way through the maple grove again.  I’ll be getting into clearing some big stuff in there!

But not tomorrow.

Tomorrow, the girls and I are planning on a day trip to the city to see some movies, to celebrate my younger daughter’s birthday – and to be in air conditioning!  Unfortunately, it’s going to be too long of a day for my husband to join us. :-(  We considered using the time for him to visit his dad, but that would just make a long day for both of them!

When we lived in the area back in 2004, we didn’t think twice about hopping in the car and driving to the city just to see a movie.  My husband used to commute to the city every weekday.  Now, just getting outside is an accomplishment for him.  I had hoped that living out here would help him with getting outside more, but the pain just isn’t in control enough for him to manage.

Which really sucks.

The Re-Farmer