I won't be able to move tomorrow!

When we moved into our house five years ago, there were four bushes, two different kinds, in our front yard. The Creeping Juniper bush, disgusting, spider filled ickyness that they are were removed the same weekend we moved in - before we were even unpacked all the way!

Three years ago we planted apple trees where the Junipers had been. I love my apple trees.

The DogWood bushes were OK looking, nothing spectacular, but they grew, a lot. I was constantly trimming them, and every time I trimmed them, I got a nasty itchy rash all over.

Two weekends ago Micah cut the bushes down to stumps, which we left because we needed to fill the hole they would leave with landscaping plastic to prevent weeds.

Today I sat on a tiny plastic chair with a hammer, a mini garden claw and a skill saw hacking away at the stumps. it took me four hours to get them out.

Four. Hours. What I wouldn't have done to have plow horse supplies so that I could have yanked that root out in seconds. People. Four HOURS.

But it was worth it. The yard looks so much better without the stumps there!

(four hours!!!)

Now. Generally speaking, I am super duper lazy and do as much as I can to get out of work! Today, however, on top of the stump removal, I pulled every weed, blade of grass and raspberry root out of a 25 x 5 foot area, then started on the side, weeding a 5 x 78 foot patch.

I got about 50 feet of that one done before my lower back started to spasm and I had to stop.

Standing up I noticed that my feet were swollen so bad I was unable to get my flip flops back on, I was sunburned on my shoulders back and face and my fingers were bloody from the thorns I encountered in the weed patch.

I had a long, hot shower when I got in the house, and felt sore, but OK. Then I sat on the couch for an hour before standing up to grab a fresh cup of coffee and realised that I was unable to straighten up all the way! My back is so stiff from the weeding that it has stiffened into place!

ZOMG.

I guess what I am trying to say is this : LAZY is the right way. It is the good way. Nothing good EVER comes from hard work.

Just ask my back!