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Yard Task Update

Task: Days Spent/Days Budgeted

tasks done this update in bold

(Completed tasks in parentheses)

10/14/22

• Polesawing: 4/3.5
• Wood rack: 0/3
• Raise retaining wall: 0/3
• Sandbox .25/2
• (Uphill bamboo: 2.875/3)
• Downhill bamboo 1.5/4
• Post-fall polesawing .5/1
• Trimming 2022 growth: 1/3

So “polesawing” is not only active again it’s passed over budgeted time already. Not “allotted”, I can do this indefinitely if I want. And after stuffing a half-day in “post-fall” already too.

Basically, I had planned on trimming up to the equivalent of a second-story ceiling (plus the tree’s maybe 4 feet lower outside a retaining wall) but found that with the intervening branches gone I might as well totally trim up to the crown at the 3rd-floor ceiling.

At that distance it’s tough to get the blade in place and I’m not biting in as well on each stroke but the stuff up there’s pretty thin anyway. Should be another half- or full day.