bushes with legs, walls that go up then down, and sinking ships

[sergebroom]

It's that time of the year where the backyard gets its spring-cleaning. I manfully (and with the help of a chisel bar) tore out bushes that were on their last legs, and got the scratches to prove it.

There is a level spot on a slope where the plants have never done well because their retaining wall of stacked-up rocks had so many leaks that most of the water just flowed away so, this weekend, I removed said boulders and built a wall of neatly fitted bricks. Except that they aren't fitted well enough to prevent some water from seeping thru. The wall will have to come down, then back up again, with some thick plastic tarp on the inside. Oh well. Live and learn.

Besides that, we've been transfering some flowers from small pots to Sue's flower beds. Yesterday, after I watered the plants with some fertilizing mixture left over from the earlier gardening session, I noticed that, even though the plastic watering can had no juice in it, it felt heavier than it should. I peeked thru the narrow opening at the top.

And found a drowned rat inside.