Yard work in winter - YUK!

[Tiramisu]

It's warm and HUMID here. We pulled all the overgrown shrubs out of our front flowerbeds at the first of August and I planted yellow daffodils that were my Mom's favorite. I have mulch on my shopping list, but haven't borrowed the truck of go get it. So, I was out pulling weeds a couple days ago. We have one more huge Sago Palm to transplant and I'm planting a 12' Northern Pine there in the Spring.

[Marilyn]

Well, I mentioned it in another thread, but we removed our Christmas lights from the yard this morning & hubby got carried away and we also trimmed the trees and the crepe myrtles and hauled all the brush to the county brush site along with the Christmas tree. I just hope I'm not sunburned. My skin feels a little warm, so I may have gotten a bit too much sun.

His next outdoor project will be the flower beds, and yes, we will look like the Clampets for a while, too, just hope the neighbors don't complain too much.

We don't know what the sterilizer is that hubby uses, but it's some kind of pellets. It is tilled into the soil and the soil is left for 30 to 45 days before you can plant anything in it.

He did this when we built our home 5 years ago, and we have had very little problem with weeds or grasses in the beds. The weeds we do have are now increasing in quantity, so this is why he thinks it's time to sterilize again. After it's done, all he will have to do is hit any little bits of weed or grass with a squirt of Roundup. No heavy weeding needs to be done. It's really nice. We don't eat anything grown in the sterilized soil, it's for decorative shrubs only, and they grow very well in the soil after this is done. I kinda think the sterilizer may be a super fertilizer that burns the weeds and grasses to death & discipates enough to plant things in it over the 30 days or so. All the shrubs looked really nice and actually grew larger than some of them were supposed to. This may be why our beds are so overgrown.

[Janet]

Well with all this outdoor talk I'm ready to get started, but we are headed down to the teens within the next couple of days. Guess I'd better get all the inside stuff done so when it does warm up...I can be outside.

[Shada]

I am so looking forward to yard work!!

Here it is in the teens... and darn cold.

[Marilyn]

We stopped by Lowes tonight, and bought a new chain saw, hedge trimmer, leaf blower, pruning shears, and a few other small items we'll need to work on the yard. The leaf blower is mine. I can't wait to get after the leaves that are hanging around our porches and the edges of the side walks.

This is definitely the right time of year to do yard work around here. It's in the high 70's and sunny. Very nice outside.

We're getting a norther tomorrow night though. It's supposed to rain, and the high Monday is predicted to be 49F. The 10 day forecast is showing it back in the 70's by Wednesday, though.

[gja1000]

You are going to get after it, Marilyn!!! I love my hubby's leaf blower too!!!

[Marilyn]

I'm so ready to get some major things done around here. Outside or inside, I don't care, just something. I took an old magnetic calendar we keep on the front of the freezer that was no longer in use (great when the girls were here and we were hopping to this or that). I am using it as a 2009 Things To Do chart. In each box, I've listed tasks that we need to complete this year, like redoing the front flower beds, organizing the drawers in the bathroom, organizing my baking pans, cleaning the pantry, cleaning the garage, getting new flooring to replace the carpet downstairs, etc. Hopefully this will work.

We're so busy with work, church committments (that we enjoy very much), and things like 4WT, but we have to make time to do some of these things around here and time to visit our children.

We really haven't been to visit hardly at all since Melissa's wedding in June, and they are beginning to complain. So much to do!! and so little time!!