Yard Work, Take 2

Garden ready!

The plan this summer is to attend to the multitude of projects around the house that I haven't been able to get to in the past two years. As luck would have it, my first weekend of yard work ended with a second degree sprain in my right ankle. This was the consequence for NOT getting to one of the items on my list: filling the "pond" that the kids dug last summer. Today was the first day my ankle was feeling well enough to be out of the walking boot for a significant period of time, so I went right to work on the list of chores immediately after mowing the lawn.
Completed today were the following:

• weeding the garden box
• planting vegetables and flowers purchased during last week's sale
• weed whacking the yard
• filling the hole (!)
• adding dirt and mulch to the front flower bed
• trimming the hedges

Two or three eggs in the hedge

Got it all done with some help from two of three children. We saw plenty of wildlife in the yard today. Chipmunks, a groundhog (under the deck, which I hope was a hiding place and not a home), cardinals, blue jays, mourning doves, sparrows, and a couple of nests complete with eggs (sparrows, perhaps?). It also seems a hawk has been feasting around our house. I cleaned that up, too.

Productive day, but my ankle is in need of some ice and rest. Happy to have gotten that work done; still much more to do. For now, I'm off to grade papers and get ready for the last full week of school.

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