I haven't had much to post about recently, because my right knee has been on strike. Apparently all of the bending and lifting and kneeling and squatting and twisting and leaning has not been much appreciated by my muscles and joints, and my right knee decided to tell me so. Although I haven't exactly been sitting in bed munching bon-bons, I have also much scaled back my home improvement efforts. For the most part.
Yesterday I did try to mow the lawn (but couldn't get the lawnmower to start). I took the weed whacker to some edges. I dug out a few weeds. I trimmed back a few bushes.
Most importantly, I identified the very large tree in my front yard as an ornamental pear, and the three saplings in the corner of my backyard as very young ash trees.
The ornamental pear will stay. The ash trees will have to come out before they get big enough to take out the back and side fences.
I still have one mystery sapling. If you know what kind of tree has smooth, gold-colored bark (similar in color and texture to an Asian pear) with long, almost rectangular leaves, give me a call. I have to find out what it is, and how big it's likely to get, so that I can figure out if it stays or if it goes.
Today, I tried to make a new screen for my bedroom window. All I have to say about that is that aluminum is a stupid thing to make into a mesh, and I still don't have a screen for my bedroom window. What I do have is a big sheet of aluminum mesh with lots of holes in it.
Stupid mesh. (Okay, so apparently being in pain and being thwarted in my home ventilation efforts make me 2 years old again. I'm okay with that.)
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