Yard work

Last weekend I was unusually involved in yard work at my house. Typically I stay in the house and don't help. Sometimes I pick tomatoes off the vine.  I occasionally cut squash off the vine and I have been known to pick some herbs, but that is the extent of my work.

However, last weekend I helped Jim and Lilly plant 200 tulip bulbs.  Jim dug the hole and then Lilly and I placed 200 bulbs in the hole, then Lilly and Jim filled the hole back up with dirt.  My part was more work than it sounds.  It is the first time I have ever planted something and I expect big returns on those bulbs!

Lilly started to comment on how I wasn't really helping with the digging but Jim shushed her and pointed out that I was helping with yard work.  He is a good man and doesn't try to make me do yard work.  It's too bad I can't say the same thing for myself and house work.

We also raked the yard again for what I believe is the third time this season, not including the time Jim mowed all the leaves.

Here are the bags of leaves at the beginning of the day, Lilly loved to use them as beds. By the end of the day we had quite a bit more.  Lilly was extremely helpful with the leaf clean up.  Jim and I filled the bags of leaves and then she dragged them to the curb for leaf pick up.

My job was to hold the bag open while Jim filled them with leaves and I have to say it exhausted me. Holding bags open is quite the work out. Or at least that is what I tell myself so I am not so sad by it all, I might need to have my iron levels checked. That was the last nice day of fall weather and it has been cold ever since.

I think the yard needs one more raking, but we might just let Jim mow the leaves and dump the clippings into his compost pile.