The News From Here

I started about 9:00 AM after learning my breakfast appointment had to be postponed. I got my golf cart (2 wheel pull cart) converted to a yard tool cart all set and out the gate I went, for the last Yucca cutting of the season. This one was only about 12’ tall but it was leaning at fairly acute angle over a public sidewalk AND the ground was moist enough for it rock back and forth A LOT. I started the day with two 90 gal. rolling garbage dumpsters that were both empty. Another Yucca hadn’t grown a stack yet but was VERY close to that same sidewalk and needed to be removed. I started out working about an hour and taking a break- glass of water, a smoke and sitting in front of a cooler in the courtyard. If I just cut the Yucca stalk in pieces that would fit in one of the dumpsters it would only take 30 minutes or so but if I cut it all into pieces to pack into the dumpster – well I have room left over then ! I started cutting, then digging out around the base to get the roots cut. I maintained that 1 hr work / 10 minute break till after 1:30 (no lunch for the non-paid labor (chuckle)). By then I felt a change was necessary and went to a 45 minute work period and a 15 minute break. Naturally I had noticed a few other issues that needed attention along the way. By 4:00 PM I was down to a 15 minutes off and 15 on work to relax cycle but had tackled a number of trim/cleanup projects along the way. By 5:00 it was “I a NEED a break before I can pickup the tools and get the dumpsters behind the fence.” I ended up with about enough room in ONE of the dumpsters for ONE med. bag of trash- about my norm for a week. Good to go! No more of those kinds of clean up for a few days because I don’t have any place to put the stuff. It’s really time for me to hook up the trailer and start a load of steel and iron (left over’s from past projects that I was SURE I’d need the leftovers for future projects but it has remained “leftovers” and the storage value has far surpassed any value it ever had. Besides a lot of those future projects aren’t as high a priority as I once ascribed. Ain’t that hoot? Who’d a thunk it. Obviously not me. . .