Friday

I decided to get some more yard work done yesterday thinking it would be easy since I had raked the entire lawn last October and took care of what I removed, I was WRONG! LOL! There was quite a bit of dead grass on the lawn, that piled up quickly but was easy to take care of. When I went into the lower yard however it was a different story, there was a large amount of branches, old walnut's and just STUFF on the ground. I use a 4'x6' tarp to drag what I rake up to the curb, nine full loads in the backyard alone. The yard will look good for a little while anyhow, those squirrels make quite the mess when they eat, I hope it is not as bad later this fall? six or seven more loads? NO thanks!
There is some more yard work that needs to be done yet, there are two shrubs that are FAR too overgrown to trim back that need to be removed and then there are a few junk trees that need to disappear, as much as I like trees, these will end up causing problems in the future.
I will need to plant some grass seed in the lower yard this season also, I didn't keep up on it like I should have and now there are large bare spots where the leaves set too long and killed what little grass was there. I'm already weighing my options on how to make the yard look it's best.
I made the call yesterday for my intake appointment, I hope to hear something today about it, going back to college is not my first option, but unfortunately it is the ONLY one at the moment.