Shrubs....equals hard work

The home that I now live in has, or I should say HAD, very mature (read, old, bent and straggly bits of trunks and green spikes)  shrubs.

 On the weekend, we cut down and dug up the roots, (not an easy task for two 77 year olds)  of the above mentioned shrubs.   They  had been in the ground for many years and looked plain ugly, so it was time for new ones.

As the title suggests, it was had work, but all seven shrubs and roots are now at the compost depot.  The front of the house looks bare and quite frankly quite a mess, as we were not able to tidy it up too much due to the change in the weather,  rain again.  So, that part of the job will have to wait until next weekend.

In the mean time we have taken a photo of the area we want to re-forest, so to speak, and intend to take it to a garden centre and get some ideas as to what type of  shrubs. we should plant.

More hard work in the future.

As we were working on this task, DM (Darling Man) asked, why are we doing this?  I said, because we can.   As noted above we are both in our 78th  year, and thankfully healthy, but we never know when that can change, so right now, we do this,  because we can.   We had aches and pains Monday, today Tuesday we are both fine.   My Mother, passed away in March, in her 102nd year, she was often asked what made her live to such a ripe old age.    The answer was always, hard work.........  look out 101 here we come.

Have a wonderful day.


P.