a little less hedge and little more vegetables.

this was a weekend of yard work. exciting, yard altering yard work. you see the huge, completely out of control hedge - that's it about half as big as it was last weekend. that's as tall as it's gotten but i've been doing a lot of trimming and thinning over the week getting ready for the chainsaw. we took away three truckloads like this. there's the last load of the day (although not the last load of the hedge - there's still at least one more waiting to go.) and you can see the the hedge looks much more like a hedge. the unfortunate thing is that when it gets that big, it's not really so much a dense hedge as really tall branches with leaves on top. so it's now really ugly three-four feet tall branches and stumps. it'll just have to be ugly this year, and then as it grows in over the summer and rest of the year, we'll have to train it to be a normal size and shape. we also worked up the nerve to ask our neighber if we could borrow their roto-tiller. (when i say we, i mean dave) dave tilled the location of the soon-to-be-ours shed that we're going to purchase in the next month or so and also a place for a vegetable garden for me. that tiller is a monster. there were a few tense minutes (for me mostly) as he figured out how to use it with chopping himself to bits. but after a few minutes it was no big deal. i'm hoping maybe we can borrow it again and put it to use on the ivy that's taking over various corners.