Several trips with the tarp have resulted in a growing pile of sticks at the curb and a couple of small punctures and scratches in my leg where the tarp bounced against me and sticks poked through. I'll wear long pants next time I do this. It is looking better already, and I've just finished taking down some dead branches in a pine next to the dog kennel - that tree needs to come down but it's next to the power lines way up, so I only work on the branches below.

I'm in for a cool-down for a few minutes; it's 91^o right now, ten degrees cooler than last week at this time, but still it requires pacing oneself. I have a long limb saw (with a wooden dowel handle as extension so it reaches about 12'), loppers, and the Ryobi reciprocating saw (I already had Ryobi batteries and found this saw at the Goodwill for $8 and it has become one of my indispensable gardening tools.)

I'll finish hauling the pine branches, then I'm going to run some baldcypress branches I set aside for chipping through the chipper, and will finish the day by taking the power saw to cut down more privet beyond the back fence. I have tomorrow also for this work, but the more I get done today, the better. It's supposed to be at the curb by Monday morning so they can survey what everyone has put out to determine what kind of truck to have the waste management folks pick it up with later in the week. Maybe by the next quarter I'll have the fence work done and those panels ready to put at the curb.

There are piles of bricks near the back fence, leftover from something the original builders of the house worked on. I lined up a few to consider what a path would look like back there.