Well, today was the day I set aside to do some yard maintenance on the California house. There were weeds to pull/spray, three palm trees that had drooping fronds and/or fruit pods to be removed. There were several runaway cereus cacti plus one umbrella tree both of which were hanging over the property line.
Image: pile of stuff we took down – click to enlarge
I started on the weeds and graduated to the palms after that. When I finished trimming the trees, Verna and I tackled the umbrella tree and the cereus cacti. The pile seen in the image will stay where it is until the next trip out when I will chunk everything up into refuse container sized pieces. Another option is to hire a crew to do that and haul everything. We’re still thinking about it.
After a visit to my Mom’s for her 92nd birthday tomorrow, we will head back toward the desert on Tuesday with scheduled visits to Joshua Tree National Park and our “river rat” friends (Jim and Karen) on the Colorado River. We can’t wait to leave the cold temperatures, the marine overcast and drizzle behind.
