We continued with our work on the front yard this past weekend. Thankfully, it was not nearly as hot as last weekend (although I did neglect to wear sunscreen on Sunday and got a bit burned!). Last weekend, we cleared out scattered rosemary bushes and white landscaping rock from the center of the yard area. This weekend, our goal was to remove the mature rosemary and white landscaping rock from the top of the slope.
The mature rosemary plants were much more of a struggle than the smaller ones we removed last week. The roots tend to grow sideways, which meant we did not have to dig terribly deep, but there were a lot of roots and some of them were very large.
Steve also somehow twisted his elbow pulling out those big plants, so he was mostly sidelined on Sunday. That meant I did the majority of the rock-shoveling and carrying it into the back. Tough work for one person!
Here’s what are neighbors are looking at now:
Next weekend we’ll be heading down to the bottom of the slope. Hopefully we can clear the last of the rock, but I’m sure the remaining mature rosemary will be an ordeal, as will the large, unidentified bush in from of the Mulberry tree, so it may take us a while to get that done.
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