Fruit Basket

Tamara's dad and sisters came down on Sunday to help us clean up the backyard a little. It was the first time I had ever seen anyone weed a garden with a chainsaw and Roundup.

We were actually very productive. Triming back all of the trees and cleaning out a massive amount of weeds. Turns out that in addition to the large Black Walnut in our front yard we also have a plum, a peach, a golden apple, and a cherry! And the peach at least had produced quite a bit of fruit.

We also finally knocked down that big wooden structure that was in the back yard and cleaned all the garbage out from under it. Now it's just in little piles everywhere around the yard, since we'll need to add it to our weekly garbarge in small increments. We did finally get rid of the old water heater though! They took it today. Finally, on Monday, we rented a wood chipper to turn all of the branches and weeds we had collected into mulch.

The yard looks much better now, but since we haven't gotten all of the garbage out yet we haven't taken any new pics. I'll post something of a before and after as soon as I can.

-Tim