Friday, July 07, 2006

Chop, Cut, Saw and Hack

7-5-06 VERMONT: No rain for three days, but things are still soggy. A few more dry days and we’ll be on drought restrictions. On the third I burnt the big brush pile behind the pond. I started at about 10 am and by 11 pm the pile was down to the size of a small fireplace fire. The pile was about five years accumulation of prunings and winter fall including a huge section of the big pine behind the pond. Its trunk was the last to go.

The fourth was the Adler’s party which has become a tradition. I only did a few odds and ends during the day.

Today I did more pruning and weeding primarily in the terrace beds and the honeysuckle, but enough to fill the cart.

New blooms: delphinium, summer azalea, hydrangea, monardna, orange day lily, fox glove, filipendula, rhodo.

7-6-06 VERMONT: Another pretty day, we had both cars serviced, Scott and Cedar have been here for a few days doing deck repair. I started pruning the front screen which was overgrown and filled with weed trees and dead lilacs shoots. I took two cart loads of brush to start a new burn pile on the ashes of the old one. Too tired to make a decent phoenix pun. It will take at least another days work, maybe two to clear it all out.

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