I've tackled the garden starting along the driveway side of the house, toting a couple of wheelbarrow loads of weeds back to the compost so far and trimming a few shrubs. Now I need to keep making progress and weed around the house before it dries out too much to work easily. I also lopped down all of the large wild sunflowers and the dead corn stalks to get them out of the way. When the garden hasn't grown up much in the spring the sunflowers look cheerful out there, but when they get really big they make a mess and crowd lots of stuff. I didn't get branches at the curb this week for bulky waste pickup so instead I'll put them out in modest amounts as trash every week, cut up and stacked into a tall Rubbermaid trash can.