Just call me Paula Bunyon.

Yesterday I cleared space for my veggie garden. The clearing is about half done-- and then after that I have to pick some logs out of the log pile to make a surround for it and then cultivate the soil a little and probably add a little more in on top of it. There are some pretty exciting before and afters on this one:





and...


You can see the stump sticking out in both pictures...just for reference of what you're looking at.


Still have to clear the ground over here....but at least I feel like the light will get in now.

There was so much shade back there that there were tons of snails just chillin' even in broad daylight. I've been rehoming them into the compost bin. Yummy food for you in there, snailies!

It took about three hours and I feel like I pulled down about 10 miles of Creeper and overgrown and possibly diseased grape vine. There were also some morning glories and strawberry in part that I cleared down, but they were so tangled in the mess that there was really no way to be selective.

There was also a pile of logs and a radiator buried in the undergrowth which I moved to another part of the yard where there was already a different log pile started:



That's a really shady part where I am not confident that much will grow, it's where I'd eventually like to put the chicken coop. (If my chicken plans succeed).

There's also a tree bit...that's growing out of the stump. I want to take it down. It's making shade and it just doesn't belong there....it's pushing the fence all out of shape too. It was full of grape vine until yesterday:


I found a rusty hack saw in the basement, but it wasn't doing the job.


This morning Anastasia went and got an axe....but about 15 minutes into the job...




The blade flew over the fence. I'm planning to go get it, but I have to run an errand first. SO that's all for now!