As I have said before, my backyard really got out of control when I came down with the China Virus three times. Since then, I have been trying to get it under control about a half hour each day. After being so sick so much and at 76 years of age, that is just about all I can handle. Oddly, the power tools do all the work but I do all the sweating. I don’t know how that works.

At any rate, the weeds were about 4 to 5 feet high. If I could just go out there with a trimmer, that would be difficult enough. However, some of the weeds are over an inch thick so I have to use a pair of long-handled loppers, in which case I really do have to work.

Well, today, the weather just beat me. I went out there with nothing but my trimmers and in about 10 minutes, I had all I could take. I had cleared a patch about fifteen by fifteen but that 95+ heat forced me to retreat to the breeze of portable AC. Admittedly, I had to use all of my reserve energy just to escape the outdoors.

I guess, at this rate, it will be winter by the time I get done, but I do have another project to work on. During an ice storm, a branch fell from a tree to the top of my storage shed. The steel is now just so much scrap that will have to be carted off, after it is disassembled. The frustrating thing is that it took me 5 weekends to put it up one summer much like this one. I built it to put my lawn tractor in, which I no longer have. With the back yard as it is, I wouldn’t be able to use it back there, anyway. The pine trees have virtually destroyed the grass.