Last weekend wasn't all that productive. Friday morning I went for a walk at a local park with a friend. I was masked, which feels kind of strange walking the the woods, but I'm trying to do my best not to be a vector even with my limited social contacts. I also made a trip to the hardware store with a long list I'd been adding to over the last few weeks. I clipped up a pile of rose down below the septic field. We spent much of the weekend providing water to parched plants, then on Sunday evening it finally rained after a month of very dry weather. Right before it rained I mowed about half the lawn. I had been putting off mowing because the grass was getting crispy and cutting it in that condition doesn't help it and isn't at all fun.
During the week I tried to pick away at weeding the garden when I could. We have finished eating the last of the early radishes and my second round of radishes hasn't done well with all the dry weather. We are getting peapods now and the bush beans are just starting to flower, so hopefully they'll be next. At some point during the week I also waded into a slope which still has rose and miscellanous vines which haven't been cleared. Got about a third of that done before getting chased out by biting insects.
Today I did more weeding in the garden, a job that is never finished until I till the whole thing under in the fall. I also worked on clipping the big pile of rose and Japanses barberry in the area beyond the stone wall. That's a big pile and will take days to get beat down. I did a bit of mowing, but there really isn't much left because what I mowed last weekend hasn't grown enough to bother with. Then I cleared the honeysuckle out of another area at the bottom of the property. One of those bushes was a monster! I had to use the 2 ton jack to get a start on levering it out then finish it with the 4ft pry bar. Now I have a lot of brush to cut up and transport to the burn area.
