Tonight was the rainshower that signals the end of the summer dry season, so ahead of that I finished getting things safe & dry. Still need to assemble the firewood rack so that’s just a pile under a tarp for now; the long branches survived last winter under the big pine and this year they’ll have cinderblocks keeping them off the ground.
Excellent time to appreciate how much I’ve gotten done with the yard this season. Just have 2 or 3 days more when the replacement polesaw arrives, then a day sawing up and sorting that, then like 3 days assembling and filling the wood rack, maybe 3 days adding on to the Blueberry Hill retaining wall, some unknown number sledgehammering the rest of the hill up, let’s say 2 days disassembling and clearing out the sandbox, 3 clearing out the uphill and 4 the downhill bamboo, one more day of polesawing once the leaves fall, and let’s say 3 of trimming new growth on the other trees and bushes, some number blowing leaves onto Strawberry Hill, and now that it’s raining again some cycles of pulling weeds and pounding the side yard dirt into a hardpack path up to the fence door\u2026
and that’s IT
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