Got work done today, and then in late afternoon our rain barrels arrived! We found them on Craiglist. I had wanted for a long time to make rain barrels and had been trying to track down empty barrels. Then one day I realized that I could locate the barrels, figure out how to make them, buy the hardware, and put them together. Or I could work a couple of billable hours and buy a damned rain barrel. The price on Craiglist was so good that we got two. Free delivery, and he was a nice guy too. He made friends with Jane, which always wins bonus points with me.
After the rain barrel guy left, I dug out unwanted/volunteer shrubs in the spots where the barrels will go. Including a pitiful forsythia which has been struggling in a dark corner since we moved in. I felt guilty about digging it up even though it would never thrive there, and I don't even like forsythia. I still need to pack down the soil, set up and level concrete blocks, cut the drainpipes and move the spout things to point into the barrels. Well it's not supposed to rain until the weekend.
After that I sawed down that tree growing into the driveway. Well I finished sawing it down. Georg had done the hard part yesterday: he cut down the bulk of the tree, leaving a stump about 3 feet high. I just cut down that last stump. We had to get that done today because we have 10 yards of mulch arriving tomorrow! Woo! The guy said if we removed that tree he could back his truck all the way up the driveway and dump the mulch behind the house. That will be great because we'll be able to park our cars in the driveway while we deal with moving the mulch. 10 yards. I wonder how big of a pile it will make? My Ford Ranger holds about 1 yard, so 10 yards will be ... a lot.
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