Yard Work Success...

...sort of!

So today I headed home from work with big plans! This week the weather has been WONDERFUL and I was ready to get some major yard work done and clean things up for fall! First on my agenda was mowing, then cleaning up the back patio, and then the dreaded weed-eating!

Many of you know that I don't have a lot of success with yard work... there always tends to be some drama or catastrophe (ya know, the usual... hitting something with the lawn mower, flat tire, 21 bee stings, lol), so I quite literally prayed this morning that things would go smoothly!

Mowing went off without a hitch - yay! I do think my mower blades need to be sharpened, but that's the least of my worries! With the yard freshly cut, I set out to clean up the back patio... I wanted to straighten up and put away some flower pots (I don't know why I ever put them out there, I ended up not planting anything in them this year!).


Here is the back yard/patio in the works... it's looking much better than it did before today! :-) And notice, my fire pit is ready for fall... I can't wait!!!!

Next I decided to take on weed-eating! It took a lot of bravery, but I started the darn thing up and gave it a go. I only got as far as the patio area and a few areas of the back yard. At that point, quite frankly, I realized I hadn't had anything bad happen and decided to not press my luck! I was hot and tired and the weed eater wears on my arm muscles (I use the word muscles loosely, ha!) and I decided that was enough today.


Here are thee weeds by my front mailbox that I refuse to weed-eat because I am still afraid of the bees! I really thought I would do it today... I watched and didn't see any bees coming or going and my neighbor already weed-eated the other side and obviously didn't get stung... but I just couldn't muster the courage yet!

The only tragedy of the day doesn't involve something I did, thankfully, but it did really make me sad! I have four beautiful maple trees in my front yard! I am so ready for fall and have been looking forward to them being big and beautiful with all the fall colors. They were little bitty trees when I first moved in and now they have grown to be these beautiful "big" maples...

This is what two of them still look like. Unfortunately the power company decided the other two were too close to the power lines! Look what they did to my beautiful trees!!!!!!!

I was so sad! They were so beautiful and full. They just cut them right in half... they'll never look the same!

On a lighter note, I am really enoying the fall-like weather... it's cooler and there is a breeze and look how bright and clear blue the sky is! Mmmm... I cant' wait for fall to be here in full!!!