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My husband and I worked pretty hard and made some progress on the house today ("the house" being representative of all our many many projects to fix up this place.)
Filled four more bags of branches... wait, back up. When we bought the place, the previous owners had installed an aboveground pool, built this very cramped deck around it with a full height fence, planted a ton of shrubby tree things in the rest of the yard and then proceeded with the ever-popular "out of sight, out of mind" philosophy for the next 10 years or so. So when we bought it, we removed the fence around the deck (removing/rebuilding the rest of the deck probably won't happen until next fall), thus exposing the jungle the rest of the yard had become. We cut down a grand total of twelve treebush things (and left three still standing.) The pile of branches was probably around 15 feet by 10 feet, at least 6 feet tall. So now, day by day, we cut a few more into manageable pieces and cram them into lawn refuse bags so the garbage men will take them away.
Since that's backbreaking work though, and the temperatures are already in the upper 80s here, we alternated the yard work with installing the last pieces of laminate flooring in the kitchen and some small painting projects.
Now he's playing Final Fantasy X-2 and I'm feeling all that sweat dry into cakey nastiness as I briefly peruse the internet before taking a shower.
It sounds like you all had a more relaxing day than I did, but I feel pretty happy about our productivity.
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