Yard work

This weekend was our last free weekend until mid/late April. As per usual we both go into tech at the same time. It is hard enough to flip flop techs, but time stops at home when we are both in tech. So if we have a free weekend before the madness we do our best to make it count. I knew I needed to get caught up on laundry, and try to do some meal planning (when we are in tech we eat 2-3 meals outside of our home each day, I try to keep us in leftovers to save money and hopefully keep us eating a little healthy). It is also our last chance for a bit to get some work done on the house.

We finally had a weekend of decent weather and decided our house project for this weekend would be yard work! I was excited, as I love puttering about the yard. Now, our house had about 10 years of neglect that we have been working on reversing, I think our yard had at least that much, if not more. Adam decided we should start at the corner of our house (the corner of Lansdowne and Violet). We had a large section of shrubery that was pretty much dead AND it blocked the view for our neighbors leaving our street.

As we worked away many of our neighbors stopped by to introduce themselves. We got to visit some with Nancy (she lives behind us) and we got to meet her dog Jasmine. Tom (who lives in the old Pennock Mansion at the end of the street-side note: The Pennock family lived in our house while they were building the house Tom lives in) stopped by to say hello and let us know that he was hoping to throw a party for us to get to know everyone on the street once it gets warmer. Leo said hello to Adam as he passed by our house. Alice (from one street over) stopped by with her dog Naomi to tell us of a great place nearby to take Molly. Al, our postman, also chatted with us for a bit. Papa Joe (or just Pops) came by to check on us too, he is the caretaker for the Apartments next to us (which he very oddly refers to as the hotel). All in all it was a great day. And we got 20+ bags of debris cleared. We hope the trash men won't be too upset at us.

I also thought I would share with you a list of the things we found hiding in our yard:
--I stopped counting at 6 water bottles
--1 orange juice bottle
--an empty 40 oz of beer
--an empty pint bottle
--a pill bottle
--an L shaped pipe joint
--a small pink t-shirt
--some hair extensions
And last but certainly not least:
A Sony cassette tape player--it was a really nice one in its day. It was actually buried in the middle of the dead shrub.

I can't wait to find out what is in the rest of the yard.