Monday, April 14, 2008

fire & water


Apparently we're into starting fires this month. Something we definitely didn't do as tenants. This weekend it was the stream that went up in flames (or smoke, in this case)- an effort to clear the channel and encourage the water to flow more freely. We now have an inky black squiggle that I'm told will be lush and green in 2-3 weeks. It's off to a good start like so many things around here that have been neglected for way too long.
No weekend around here would be complete without hooking something up to a truck and pulling it down, so we bestowed that privilege on 6 huge privet bushes. They had been planted in a row outside the kitchen window. Now they're along the far property line providing a welcome privacy screen. Yes, we went to the trouble of transplanting an invasive 'weed' shrub, because when your budget looks like ours, you gotta use whatcha got.

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