May 17-23, 2020 Chainsawing Back Driveway, Stair Work, Mow

 May 17-23, 2020 

Chainsawing Back Driveway, Henry: Cancer, Stair Work, Mow

Hello Friends!

We worked a lot outside again this week.  I had Black-Eyed Susan's to transplant, and Hosta placement to consider.   I also mowed this week--about three hours worth! I hung a suet feeder off my gutter this week and now am enjoying seeing all sorts of birds out my kitchen window!  I'm glad a friend suggested I try this!  The real bonus is that the squirrels can't get to it! 

Yard Work:

There are so many "scrub" trees (worthless, yucky trees are referred to as "scrub" trees in our family) popping up on our back driveway and we decided (Dh and me) that this was the week to focus on cutting down as many as we could.  I don't know exactly what these weedy trees are, but they just pop up and clutter things around the evergreens that we love.  We had quite a lot of little bonfires going throughout the week---which was lovely.

Henry: 

Our English Shepherd has had a bloody grape growing/dangling from his ear that we had biopsied, after it was removed, at the vet and the results were that he has Basal Cell Carcinoma.  I'm glad we did the surgery!  That is horrible to think he had cancer.

Stairs:

We worked on our stair replacement, to the basement, a few times this week.  I painted the under treads for the new stairs and Dh painted the risers.  We got the last riser on the stairwell done after many attempts and recuts.  

Since I don't have a worksheet from Dd with this week's accomplishments; I'm going to guess she took this week off to celebrate wrapping up her official classes.  I know she left early a lot to see her boyfriend and have lunch with him and wasn't around much.