YARDWORK ACCOMPLISHED

It's been such a terrible weekend in Texas with the devastation in the Hill Country flooding.  Such loss of life.  Those heavy rains were just like a tropical storm.  We figured some of the rain had made its way to the farm.  I was planning on going to the farm to at least finish the edging when we woke up to the horrible news and rain possibly heading this direction as well.

I waited until Saturday and when I got there, it was virtually bone dry!  Not sure why, but thankfully, most of that heavy rain missed us out there.  I was happy to unexpectedly mow.  I broke out the Zen Machine 2.

About the same amount as last time.  I've stopped mowing the trails since we'll be clearing large areas after we move in, seems kind of pointless in this heat to do extra work that might not be needed.

Look, it's the new house AND the barn and shed!

The driveway is a conundrum.  It's so much higher now that there is a drop off on the side, it's hard to mow.  I do what I can, but I need to figure out a solution.  I'll just wait until the Fall, and we'll figure it out then.

The main reason I went out there was to finish what I started last weekend with the new cordless trimmer.  I was able to do it, and the trimmer did a wonderful job.

Before...

After.

Another before...

And after.

It was such a relief.  I feel accomplished.  I still need to fix up the inside of the beds, add some soil and top it off with mulch.  It will be easier since the hard part is done, so one of these weekends, I'll take the farm truck and buy some bags to toss in the back.

In the meantime, if you see the sky pics in the after photos, rain was coming.

I finished, put everything up and headed out...that blue arrow is the farm.  I left just before we did get some of that heavy rain finally moving in from the Hill Country to here.

Keep Texas in your thoughts, it's going to be a long recovery for that area.

 

Tomorrow, a house update...