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Thread #173767   Message #4222219
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
07-May-25 - 09:44 PM
Thread Name: DECLUTTER: *Sorting *Health *Progress - 2025
Subject: RE: DECLUTTER: *Sorting *Health *Progress - 2025
Sandra, that has many similarities to the Welman Project here. I just pulled up the site to get the URL and signed myself up for another donation at the end of May. I go over about every six months with stuff. This time I have a lot of yardage and notions (from the friend who is preparing to move - we are slowly disseminating her excess supplies through the community.)

My front yard is mowed, though it was a soggy slog. Every time I pulled the mower backwards the wheels pulled up divots or left bare soil tracks. I also worked on the grass growing through cracks in the driveway, and think I'll be able to tackle the rest of that over a couple of days; it's a long driveway and there are at least three distinct lines of grass running the length of it. Instead of using the weed whacker I'm using a mattock and a Hori Hori knife to trim it off at the concrete edge. (That link goes to an item no longer available, but it really is a great value, it came with a sturdy case and a large sharpening stone. I bought a couple extras in 2023 and sent them to my kids for their gardening.)

There is a lot of weeding to do in the beds and pulling vines and volunteer trees out of the beds; I might put a couple of the volunteer pecans in pots and see if anyone wants them. They're gorgeous but pecans are huge trees and I don't need them growing where the squirrels planted the nuts. I have photos of a couple of the potted vitex trees that I'll offer this week on one of the free sites.

Tomorrow will probably just about perfect for digging work, after the rain has saturated the soil but it has had some time to drain a bit so it isn't a clay-like gumbo.