Green bin man took the bundled suckers.

I don’t typically bother tying my loose brush up into bundles for the green bin trucks to take away. My usual routine is to collect them up, prune my trees and shrubs, gather a pile that gets about waist high, and then in the fall cart it all off to the farm. I’m trying to not give skunks any extra reason to hang out near my house, so brush or limbs will get carted off as soon as humanly possible this year (if I can help it!) the fence will last a whole lot longer if I don’t leave a bunch of stuff leaned up against it to rot away every single year. Our trees are pretty big, not massive, but of a good size, so every time we have a storm, or a prolonged down pour old dead bits fall out of the trees. I collect them up rather than attempt to move over them, because Shrapnel!. Then before 8 know it my little pile has grown a fair bit, and then it’ll catch blowing leaves, and I’ll toss pulled weeds onto the pile, and it’ll get bigger and bigger.

So to combat that constant pile up of debris and garden refuse, I put all three new piles out on the curb, tied in string. And they actually went this time. Handy thing was, since I had tied them up, I could have just as easily transported them to the farm. But this way was easier. Somewhat. I need to keep on it. We have a while to go yet before we reach May and I have to start cutting the grass twice per week. So I will continue to pick up all of the fallen twigs rather than mow them into the grass. It’s slightly less dangerous with the tiny twigs, and longer grass, than with bigger bits and our current short, and not very thick grass.

Every year I toy with the idea of taking more, and more lower limbs out of our trees because we can’t play catch in the shade under them once the leaves load them down. I should make the choice to cut them off before the buds appear, thereby not wasting the trees energy, and resources on parts I intend to remove. I might have left it too late all ready. Those parts will have to go to the farm, they will be far too big for the green GFL trucks to take away.

It is Wednesday today. We are in the dead centre of the month once we hit noon. I should get back to work!