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Property tax bill comes in yesterday and I opened it with resignation because city council voted in an increase of same. Except that, as ever, my second half set of taxes is something like $50 a month less than the first set. So I am content. So today I went out and clipped my hedge, what I could reach of it, as well as the English ivy I now read is an invasive plant. Certainly it's taken over the front yard and its springy mass is impossible to walk on with my precarious balance and spasming back. Is why I couldn't clip all of my hedge. But I do need to wade in and pull it off the trees that it's in the process of choking.
Meanwhile Oliver stood at his gate down the walkway and barked whenever he saw me. I suppose that makes him a good watchdog and that's why SND doesn't train her dogs out of the habit. Or he could have been barking at the little dachsund who passed by twice with his little owner and her mum. Little owner is maybe three or two and change, and very reminiscent of the Mighty Helen at the same age. Turned around to say hello to me, and then asked her mum what I was doing.
Equally, the fir at the corner of my front planter is dead. I should take it down, or rather, pay someone else to take it down. Just, dead or not, it blocks the view of my porch a little, and I am loath to lose it. I wonder if Prof Medieval Studies might like to take his power saw to it, seeing as he lopped quite a few branches off his own magnolia.
Meanwhile Oliver stood at his gate down the walkway and barked whenever he saw me. I suppose that makes him a good watchdog and that's why SND doesn't train her dogs out of the habit. Or he could have been barking at the little dachsund who passed by twice with his little owner and her mum. Little owner is maybe three or two and change, and very reminiscent of the Mighty Helen at the same age. Turned around to say hello to me, and then asked her mum what I was doing.
Equally, the fir at the corner of my front planter is dead. I should take it down, or rather, pay someone else to take it down. Just, dead or not, it blocks the view of my porch a little, and I am loath to lose it. I wonder if Prof Medieval Studies might like to take his power saw to it, seeing as he lopped quite a few branches off his own magnolia.