Lawn day
It got off to a gray and dreary start, but today turned into an absolutely glorious spring day -- warm and sunny. So I finally did that which I've been putting off since I got home from LA last week -- mowing the lawn. Finally I'm not ashamed of the overgrowth of weeds and grass that have made us look like the white trash family of the neighborhood (complete with Frickin' Van silently rusting into oblivion on one side of the driveway, covered in a thick yellow-green blanket of spring pollen).
The job actually went quicker than I expected, thanks in part to a soundtrack provided by my iPod ("Hello Nasty" by the Beastie Boys). This is the first time I've had the iPod during warm weather, so it was great to be able to tune out the country music station blasting from the open doors of a utility van parked in my neighbor's driveway and the drone of the lawn mower.
I ended up doing some more yardwork, too. There was a lot of overgrown shrubbery and small trees that needed to be taken down in a small area that borders my neighbor's yard; a diseased holly shrub got cut down to its roots, and a few small birch saplings that had grown too top-heavy to grow upright were whacked away too. I also cut down some wood in the backyard that was causing it to have that "forest moon of Endor" look -- gotta keep the Ewoks at bay (and by "Ewoks" I mean the giant raccoons that occasionally molest my trash).
I recovered a handheld fertilizer spreader I'd left at my mother's house a few years ago, too. At some point this week, I'm gonna get to the hardware store so I can pick up a bag or two of broadleaf killer and lay that stuff all over the lawn, but not today -- I'm tired and sweaty and covered in dirt and bug guts. But now that I've cut down the dandelions and spread their damn seeds everywhere, I might as well do something to try to kill them off.
