Josh Moody

I finally bit the bullet and bagged leaves in my back yard this weekend. I kept up with the leaves in the front yard pretty well this year, but didn’t touch the back until yesterday. 2 days of work + about 40 yard bags later the back yard is in pretty good shape. It’s not perfect (which bothers me, because I’m from the “Any job worth doing is worth doing right” school of thought), but it’s a whole lot better than it was. I even managed to clean out the big flower bed in the front yard, clean the roof and gutters, and touch up the front yard.

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Some of the items I found under all those leaves:

• My Favorite Screwdriver (Lost last weekend while putting together the swingset)
• Pry Bar
• Garden Hose
• BBQ Grill Brush ( I bought a replacement for this missing brush a couple weeks ago )
• 2 Flower Beds (with flowers!)
• 3 plastic dishes (So thats where all of Ashes’ water bowls went to!)
• 2 of Rachel’s pony tail holders (She has pony’s in every color of the rainbow but both of these were bright blue. I guess she doesn’t like the blue ones…)
• Grass

The city garbage service stopped accepting plastic yard bags last summer. Now they’ll only accept bio-degradable bags for yard waste. This probably wouldn’t be so bad, except that the bio-safe bags are MUCH more expensive than regular plastic bags, and in my neighorhood, it would cost a fortune to buy enough paper bags to do the job. The alternative (which I’ve chosen) is to load up all of the plastic bags and haul them to the landfill myself. There, you cut open the bags and dump the contents into the compost pile, then throw the bags into the trash bin. Of course, I haven’t owned a truck for a couple years, so I have to borrow my neighbor’s Toyota. It’s a small truck, so I’m looking at 3-4 trips to the dump to haul the mess off. Maybe next weekend…

And to think, we told the realtor we wanted a house with lots of trees.