Busy, busy, busy. But now things are settling down a bit. It's also getting hot in St. Louis. The high 90's for the next couple days and it's humid. Blah. Anyway, we've finally gotten back to the yard again. We've had birthdays, weddings, baby showers, and a graduation all in the past couple weeks. Let's see what the pictures say about the yard. Oh, Memorial Day weekend, we rented a wood chipper. Those things are big. It definitely struck me with a sense of my own mortality. Feed a six-inch log into the chipper and watch it get crushed in a matter of a few seconds. It was like the nightmares of Texas Chainsaw Massacre all over again. I have pictures of the chipper but I think they're in my May picture folder. I'll have to post them later because after this post I'm going to bed. These pictures are the result of us chipping our cedar tree. It was growing sideways. If you don't know, cedar mulch is expensive so it was worth it for us to chip the tree up. I really thought that a whole tree would end up in a bigger pile than this. Anyway, we also got a wheelbarrow (finally!) I've been wanting and needing a wheelbarrow for quite a few months. Makes hauling dirt and compost from one garden bed to another a lot easier. I love our wheelbarrow. And we got it for $30 because it had a couple of scratches in it. It's not like I wasn't going to scratch it up anyway hauling cedar logs around. Since we have a whole bunch of cedar mulch now, I've been mulching everything. I mulched the front bed of boxwoods and impatiens and man do they look awesome now. Well I better sign off for now because Foo is awkwardly making a bed out of my lap.
