Did I mention how much I love my yard?  It’s just SO perfect.   It’s only missing one thing and that is a cute little chicken coop.  Maybe some day…

But, no, I adore my yard.   And one the things I like the best?  Is that an hour in the yard is a lot of time working, and accomplishing things.  It’s just the right size that if you go out with your daughthers and you work for a good solid hour you can get SO much done, it’s not funny.   And you can then ENJOY the yard!

When we lived in the HUGE house…  with the nearly 1/2 acre yard  (a bit more than 1/3 and not quite 1/2)  it was really a chore just to keep up with it.  Mowing and weeding and shoveling in the winter and all that goes into a HUGE manicured lawn.   I had several planting/garden areas but still, it took a while.

Here at the Moby, it takes about an hour to mow all the yard and that’s mostly because you have to weave around stuff.  (I’m going to fix that next spring…  put in more planted and mulched areas and more streamlined grass…)  ((If you can call what I have grass, it’s really more a trimmed weed patch!))   It takes an hour to rake all the leaves.   It takes about an hour to shovel all the walks and out to the cars if you get a good snowfall.  And an hour or two a week keeps the yard looking tidy and cared for.  Even with all the garden beds, they get a good mulching in the spring and then just an hour or so here and there to keep the weeds at bay through the summer.    And an hour here and there to trim out the dead stuff in the fall for the compost pile.

Then you have plenty of time to sit outside in the hammock and enjoy the outside instead of working hard just to keep up with it.

And what is super nice, is that it’s just perfect for letting it go for a week or more when you are super busy.  I like that.

We spent an hour today taking out the last of the tomato and sunflower plants that got brown and frost burned a few nights ago.  And Maggie raked up a bit of leaves to lay in the beds.  Just a good tidy up.  And then we laid in the hammock or on the ground and just visited and talked with the puppy played with the rake.   She hates garden tools for some reason.  Growls and snarls and wants to kill them.  She’s weird.

Now we’re all done for the day and I think I’m going to take a nap.