Spring Fling 2011 - Day 15

It could be said that this was the day I "sang for my supper", repaying hospitality with a hard day's work.  The evening before we had agreed that as Jean needed to make lots of phone calls, arrange a trip to Boston to her sister, and take on a variety of domestic chores we would make this an undiluted work day.

After our efforts the day before the big outdoor priority was to get the "outer" of two hedges that were severely cutting into their pathway to the front door under control.  We briefly tried just a heavy pruning, but it was so old and ugly that we decided to eliminate it completely.

The day was again beautiful, if a little warm (mid-80's).  The heavy arm-protecting shirt was abandoned in favor of a T-shirt at our lunch break.  The work was hard, but we paced ourselves, periodically gathering wagon loads of debris and transferring it to the brush pile at the bottom of the garden and also sitting in the shade and consuming plenty of cold liquids.  We also took a significant break for lunch, but did not nap.

By the end of the day we had the satisfaction of everything in that area looking many times better than it had before and that the top priority "major job" outdoors was now completed.  The task would have required, had Pete tried to do it alone with his gimpy legs, many days that he currently does not have available.

Needless to say we all had an early night.  It is hardly a subject for photographic art but a few before and after pictures were taken and loaded on Flickr and may be found here.