Does Hard Work Outdoors Make You Happy, Too?

Yes, I'm a little tired tonight,
but what a good feeling!

Yesterday afternoon, Mr. Shady and I worked on the front, south, and north yards (in the front).
I also tossed piles of leaves over all the flowerbeds, cutting some of the tall flowers back as I went. As I was out of town yesterday morning, I ventured into a downtown hardware store (purveyor of anything and everything anyone might ever want!) and purchased "deer fence" (a plastic netting 7' wide by 100' long) that I spread over three beds, tacking it down as I went. (Doesn't that sound efficient?) I've been waiting to get outdoors to do this ForEver! ;-)

And yes, between the two of us, we hauled at least 5 large tarp-loads of leaves to the backyard ravine. Yea!

Today, I began in earnest on the leaves in the backyard... see below.
You may want to click on the photos to be able to appreciate the numbers of leaves!

Ten tarp-loads (raked and hauled) later, it looks somewhat better, don't you think?

For your information, if oak leaves are left to lie, and decompose, on the grass - they kill it.
It is hard to grow grass in a very shady area, but what I have established - I'd like to keep!

Do you remember that there are flower beds somewhere under these leaves?

If you look very closely, there's a huge lump of leaves between the trees and shed that Mr. Shady was unable to haul yesterday. My goal for tomorrow afternoon is to load and haul away those leaves, rake around the far side of the beds, in front of the shed and to the house, and generally "clean up" before I am forced to stop! I'm guessing there's a total of 10 more tarp-loads...

As Huck Finn once implied... This is Fun! Wouldn't you like to try?? ;-)

Nothing Shady there... we'd have a great time together!
Have a great week!