The Last One

Today, now that the imminent threat of tornadoes is past, I'm going to finish the last flower bed.

Chain saw, hedge trimmer, garbage cans at the ready. It's a small bed, but needs a lot of trimming back. So, I'm guessing it will take a couple of hours and another 10 bags of mulch.

When this flower bed is done, we'll be done with the hard yard work. The rest will be planting a few bushes and maintaining the beds we've weeded and mulched. Work, but not the back breaking labor that throwing mulch can be.

Again, I will wait to see if I get a real 'job well done' feeling afterwards. I'm not sure that I get that from yard work. It's just work.

Hard manual labor calls for ibuprophen and protective clothing. I'd better go get mine on.

--Sandee Wagner