Outdoor Work

I mowed 1/2 of the lawn today.  Really only 1/4 is actually growing appreciably (where our dog does her “business”).  But I did 1/2 so that it would look even.  The other half has no growth yet to speak of.... but that is pretty normal here.  We still had frost and snow several mornings last week.  I also spent the nice day outside cutting down into several sections a County tree that fell and rested on the fence that bordered the back yard.  Normally the County would have taken care of that by now because it was County property.  But, with the Covid-19 situation that is all on hold.  The only reason I decided to cut the tree myself was that I would need to do it eventually as most of the tree was covering a good 25sq ft of the yard and it would be impossible to mow the lawn when that area of grass started to grow.  The trunk of the tree was about 1 ft in diameter (~30cm), so it was not a huge tree but it did have a lot of branches, and it was causing the fence to start to sag as well.  Unfortunately, in a fit of getting rid of clutter about 5-6 years ago, I gave my 35 year old chain saw to a nephew and had to saw the tree into several chunks by hand.  I will take two aspirin tonight when I go to bed.  The chainsaw was my father’s before I inherited it when he died.  He had only used it once, and truth be told in all the years I had it, I too had only used it once.

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