(#5956) Back yard work today

      I have so much to finish up out back with mowing, raking, weed eating and such so that is my focus. The nice thing about it is that I have already finished most of it and now it is just the back end of all the work that needed to be done. I won't finish including the front yard today but tomorrow I will. I would normally be working tomorrow but since the Memorial Day holiday is upon us I get another day to get the yards ready for hot weather. I do have to work on actual Memorial day Monday but around the country Sunday is used as a remembrance day for parties and picnics to celebrate those who have served us well in fighting to keep our democracy.
     We will also see the hypocrisy of the current trump administration attempt to make Memorial Day all about them in some distorted deluded way but most of us are in the know that fighting for democracy and the inclusion America had always stood for is the real reason for the remembrance. I have already started my work out back even before starting and finishing this blog post. I don't know why I did things out of order  because it usually comes back to bite me somehow but there it is and here I am now trying to get my fingers to type then they are so tired from operating tools and doing manual shoveling and raking.
     I did order an electric hedge trimmer that will be coming next week which is perfect timing in that I will have all the necessary work done and can then just focus on the hedges. I like doing yard work because it gives me exercise while also giving me satisfaction for how the yard looks when I am done. It isn't anything that would go in some fancy magazine but it is nice for me. On another note there were about 400 goats of all ages out back on both sides of the creek bed eating all the wild vegetation. It is probably more cost effective to hire the goat shepherd and his goats than to have a human work crew come back and clean out all the overgrowth. Life is good in the back yard and after today it will be even more enjoyable to just sit and watch the wildlife interact.