Took a "Coronavirus Break" — Doing Yardwork is Quite Cathartic!

I haven't posted in a few days... mostly because I just plain needed a break from the news and the technology.

Let's face it, I think most of us have pretty much hit "maximum density" on Covid-19. You can't get away from it... even when you're quarantined — or under a "shelter in place" order, like we are.

You turn on the computer, all you get is a steady diet of updates. And even if you steer around the updates, most of the ads are related to Covid, in some way.

I'm grateful for the fact that we have a yard, and our stay-at-home order isn't a "stay in the HOUSE" order.

Because it's spring, there's no shortage of things to do outside.

I spent most of the day pulling weeds, mowing, and using the weed whacker on the path of land we used to use for our vegetable garden. We let it go to seed a few years back because our idiot neighbor up the hill decided to use some weed killer to get rid of the thistles along his driveway... which runs right at our property line.

Guess what? Water runs downhill (as in rain) and that poison stuff stays in the ground for a year or more.

In the process, we learned that Himalayan Blackberry and so-called "beggars lice" thrive under pretty much any conditions, no matter how hostile.

Annoying as it might be to have to remove these very invasive plants (the blackberry pretty much "ate" our shed...) it was also a very healing way to get away from all the 24/7 Covid circus. Now I feel suitably sore, having used a set of muscles that don't typically fit into a workout routine!

Hope your weekend has been a good one!

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Created at 20200419 23:48 PDT
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