My dream, realized

I am very much not fond of the bushes in front of our house. Yuck! I've been saying since we moved in a few years ago, that I couldn't wait to chop the bushes down. Let me explain. We've got 3 equally hideous structures resembling foliage front and center of our house, each of them completely different than the other, and each beyond unruly. You know the kind of evergreen that is REALLY prickly and has strange, little grayish-green-what-look-like-berries that under normal circumstances isn't that bad? Well, when said evergreen takes up 72 sf, it becomes less than attractive. This particular beauty you see here, is a different type of evergreen that grows upward, but gone untrimmed, becomes too heavy to stand upright and is tied together with twine. In between the coniferous beauties, lies a deciduous-nothing-special bush, that grows abundantly each year, despite being trimmed to nothingness each year, and looks more like mini trees with weeds coming out of the branches. Again I say YUCK! The funny part is, I've been dreaming of chopping these things up (well, removing them actually, but let's take it one step at a time) for so long now, and apparently discussing it so much, that the hubs bought me a hedge trimmer for Christmas. While that might horrify your average reader, I was delighted!

Saturday I treated myself to realizing a dream. However, it was much harder than one might think. It looks nowhere near good yet, but at least now it somewhat looks like a work in progress. I had to abandon my work partway through the 72-square footer, before my arms fell off! That's okay, though, it felt good to actually be able to do some yard work for a change. This is the year I have a date with landscaping.... I think.... More dreams.

That's hot!