Yard Work

When Jenni and I first bought our house we were excited about having an actual yard. Behind the house we had a somewhat large wooded area. It was real nice as many bunnies, squirrels and birds lived there. It also acted as a buffer from our neighbors behind us. Unfortunately, the woods were loaded with poison ivy which Jenni happens to very allergic to. So we made the decision to get rid of half the woods leaving the other half as a bunny preserve. Actually that half is thicker with trees and is nestled nicely in the corner between our yard and two other yards behind us. The big problem wasn’t getting rid of the trees but the fuckn’ vines on the ground. We have no idea what the hell kind of vines these are but they might as well be friggin cables. No way puling them out by hand is going to the job. After trying to peel the vines at the edge of the woods back, like a carpet, Jen got blasted with poison ivy. It was all over but covered by the other vines (hence the term ground cover for all you city folks.) This had to be the worst case of poison ivy I’ve ever seen. I’m not going to get into the details of it but lets just say she was miserable for couple of weeks (at one point we really thought she was going to permanently scarred.) So long story short we hired someone to tear out that half of the woods. Many thanks to Casey Schrock, my landscaper (I’m way to lazy to mow my lawn, besides I’m contributing to the local economy) for taking on the job. We’re very satisfied with the job. Oh yeah, does anyone need any wood?? Just help yourself.

The Image on top is from June of '08. Note how lush it is. The area off to the left where the really tall weeds are where we tried to clear out but gave up. Below is what it looks like now after three days of real work. There's more pictures here at my photo gallery or you can click on the Tony's Eye View link on the left.