Thursday, February 3, 2011

Homeownership is hard work

Several years ago John and I bought a lot in a subdivision we had been looking at for a while. It is an acre lot on a hill. We love it and built our dream home on it. After being in our house for 2 years we are now attempting to take back some of our lot that mother nature has taken from us.

We have cleared many of the vines but at the very bottom of our hill Mother Nature reigns. For the last 2 weekends John and I have been( by ourselves I might add) been trying to clear the vines that have taken over so many of our trees.
This is what we started with notice the lovely vines poor trees are bending under the tangled weight
This is a section that we cleared last weekend. Not sure if the vines caused the trees to lean or not but we have some leaner's in our yard that's for sure.
This is what a semi finished vine clearing looks like. Notice the long ones well even with both of us pulling on them they would not give. John actually pulled so hard on one of them that he fell on his butt and ended up doing a backwards somersault. I wish I had been camera ready but alas I was not.
And this is what happens when man wins over the vines. 


Now this weekend Jonathan will be home and so will Jessica & Joel so we will conquer the remaining creepers. If your free and would like to swing on some vines feel free to stop by.