Monday . . .

Monday was a very busy day for us.  We usually have the housekeeper come on Mondays to clean up for us.  She is both a house keeper and friend.  She brought her three grandchildren with her.  We knew she was going to do this and okayed it.  In fact, Judie spent several hours entertaining the kids.  The housekeeper, Emely cleaned up and then hustled all the kids off just after lunch.

Monday the glass people also showed up.  One of the sliding doors for the shower/bath tub was off track, in fact one of the door's hangers had slipped down complicating matters.  So they showed up and took the door off, reworked the hanger and rehung the door.  It took two of them to do the job.  It is not a task for an non-professional to perform.  Those doors will shatter into a jillion pieces if stressed the wrong way.  So we let the pro's do their job and they had it all fixed up in about an hour or so.

And the landscaper showed up with a bevy of workers seeming each one came in his own truck.  So we had a crowd of vehicles parked out front.  They installed rings under the trees out front.  I say rings but they are kidney shaped as Judie does not like the plain old rings.  They place some big rocks, some smaller gravel and mostly mulch inside the rings.  They also planted Ajuga plants that will eventually spread as a ground cover.

They also put in a ring out back to around the big Hackberry tree closest to the house.  They used a pole saw and trimmed out some of the lower hanging branches to open up the sun light a bit.

They also planted a Little Jim Magnolia out in the mound.  The mound was a pile dirt that came from where we expanded the concrete off the patio.  The mound got all dressed out and even got one of those big pieces stone to go with the Magnolia tree.

And finally we had another Hackberry, smaller in size that was nuisance tree and I wanted it removed.  Well it is gone now.  That free up some sun light for the grassy area near the bird bath located in the middle of back yard.  The Hackberry's are trashy to begin with and it was going to be a problem with the Post Oaks, so it had to go.

All of the landscape stuff took about a day and half.  But it spruces up the yard and makes Judie happy, so I am happy with that.

It was a busy day, with cutting slashing, scraping, placing, mulching, house cleaning and glass repair.