June 24th - More Trimming

We got up early, at least early for us, and did more yard work. The "back yard" has lots of bamboo like plants. Kathy wanted to cut them back drastically so she worked on them with our electric chainsaw. They were to big to cut down with the weed eater but almost to small for the chainsaw.
This is a "before" photo of the bamboo patch outside the door out of the downstairs kitchen/dining area.

 This is the after photo of the area. While she was running the chainsaw I ran 2 tanks of gas through the weed eater. I didn't even get completely finished on the lower lawn.

 We then loaded the bamboo in the truck, hauled it back to the brush pile and unloaded it.

After we got the truck unloaded we took showers and Kelsey and Lydia came over at 11:00 to take us to Columbia, it is about 45 miles to Columbia. Kelsey drove so that I didn't have to take the tool box out of my truck. Also, her truck is the MegaCab while mine is only the smaller 4 door cab.

We had a good lunch at Fuddruckers in Columbia. Then we bought an air compressor and a couple of rakes at Lowes before going to Sam's. At Sam's we bought a bed frame and an inexpensive mattress and box spring.

Having Kelsey drive us around is quite nice. It gives Kathy a break <grin>. My nap on the way home from Columbia was refreshing. Lydia napped the entire trip.

Once we arrived home Kelsey helped us unload. I set up the air compressor and got it running. I added air to the mower tires so we think we are now ready to mow. Still LOTS of weed eating to do.

Kathy took a short nap while I was doing that and then went into the house to work on it. She wanted to re-vacuum the bedroom before we put the bed together. I'm not sure what else she is doing.

Tomorrow the carpet cleaners are supposed to come. They are cleaning the downstairs carpet. The master bedroom carpet doesn't look like it needs cleaning and it is the only carpet in the upstairs.

It is a little after 6 right now and the temperature is 93. It is supposed to get down into the low 60's tonight, it better start dropping soon. Tomorrow's high is supposed to be 99. We better get up early if we are going to continue the year work.

Good  night to all and may God bless you and yours.