Wouldn't it be nice if every Monday could be a lazy Monday? Alas, this one was not. But close enough. If I had to work tonight, at least I got to spend the evening sitting in front of a roaring fire, stoked up so high that I had to change into a lighter sweater. And I watched a couple of good movies while I was working: 49th Parallel, a propoganda film about Nazis in Canada trying to sneak across the border into the US (the movie was made just before the US entered the war) and Five Came Back, a thriller about a small plane that crash lands in the Amazon (as you can guess from the title, not everyone gets out). Now The Shop Around the Corner is on.
We spent the weekend attacking the new bed. To be more specific, attacking privets and saplings in the new bed. Yesterday I found the biggest stump -- at least I hope it's the biggest. I thought it was just a cluster of saplings growing together, but actually it was suckers growing out of a stump 8" in diameter. A couple of the lateral roots were so big the digging bar didn't work, I had to chop them out with an axe.
It's going to take more than one afternoon to get that stump out, but I'm glad it's going to be too cold to work for the next few days. My arms are so sore! I managed to stay just on the right side of overdoing it -- very sore but not quite an injury.
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