Thank god it's the weekend!
I am sure Good Friday has different meanings to different people, for me, it means the start of a four day weekend. Not any four day weekend but Easter weekend! So not only do we have time to be productive both on and offline but there is chocolate involved.
If you are a regular follower of mine you will know that last night we spent celebrating the matching of our adoptee son with my husband's friends, playing Foosball, drinking and chatting by the fire.
Apologies for the bad image, it was taken by firelight coming on midnight with more than a few intoxicated beings.
So I already knew that @shai-hulud my awesome husband would be out for the day. My drinking efforts these days are limited a glass of wine if I'm being excessive as I much prefer to celebrate without a hangover. In saying that all I need to do to get a hangover these days is stay up past midnight. So clearly the productivity was going to be left up to me for the day, tired hangover or not.
Bring in the good
I love the feeling of achieving something that at times seems impossible. These ficus stumps had been taunting my laziness ever since my boss dropped me home and told me I was brave for planting one so close to my house. Shocked I asked why as I was excited I hadn't killed them. I had two and they were both looking rather sad in their pot's so I put them in the ground to save them about a year or two earlier.
And The Bad...
He told me the root systems were invasive and they could not only damage our house but our neighbours. We set to cutting them down and poisoning the roots that weekend, I cried and couldn't do it so I left it up to my hubby, I hate killing anything and these trees I have loved and nurtured well before putting them into the garden.
All evergreen Ficus, or figs, have vigorous, invasive root systems and grow into large trees, making them unsuitable to plant in residential gardens.
Something I should have looked into before planting them in the ground...
Back to the good!
With our son arriving in two to three months, all the things that were on the back burner to do, have come to the forefront and the stumps were my first challenge of the weekend. It was hard sweaty work and I had to sit more than once mid shovelling, sawing and tugging but in just under an hour, I was victorious and the stump heeded to my efforts and released itself from my garden bed.
Victory!
One down and one to go! But that will be tomorrow or Sundays challenge depending on how I pull up from today as although I am fit, my back and core are still weak and I know my limits so some rest and relaxation this afternoon will leave me to fight another day.
What now?
I know what I am doing with the stump I have to remove from out the front but I am open to ideas on my triangle garden bed out the back. I was thinking a succulent garden potentially layered with varying heights.
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Foosball fun for a Good Friday eve!
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