If you're like me, you have a to-do list a mile long, whether it's a mental list or a written one. Or both, as is the case with me. For example, I've been meaning to get a pedicure for 6 months. It's on my list, and my toes look terrible, but it's such a hassle I just keep putting it off.
Right now, my to-do list is yard-focused. I've mentioned before that I have a really big back yard. My little house is seated on .26 acres, which is pretty huge by Vallejo standards. The size is great, but when I bought the house two years ago, it had long been neglected and overgrown. Since I didn't grow up doing yard work (I have a brother, y'all), it was intimidating, so I didn't do anything with the yard the first year I lived there. Last summer (my second summer in the house), I started doing a little here, a little there, but not much. This year, however, I couldn't take it anymore. I made it my goal to get 50% of that yard in shape by labor day.
And by "in shape," I mean not a total nightmare. And by "not a total nightmare," I mean not covered in young trees with fist-sized spiders chilling in minivan-sized webs between them, and not covered in blackberry bushes, ivy, honeysuckle, and other invasive vining weeds that strangle plants.
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