Before and After

Today's before and after were taken yesterday - 2 hours apart.  Not sure why the colour is so different, perhaps due to sun position.  This is my very first attempt at hedge trimming.  This is our one and only hedge, we have a few other bushes we trim but no actual hedges.  This is shared with our neighbors who have a hedge border on their side of the yard too. 

Last time, our neighbor trimmed the boxwood.  That was early last year.  Before that it was hubby.  He is busy and tends to go overboard on the chopping, something I was trying to prevent.  I woke up yesterday with loads of energy, quite unusual for me since my fibro has been going crazy lately.  Hubby is still busy with our business but my role has been reduced for a while since we are not doing live training nor onboarding new clients.  So while he toiled away inside in his office I went at it.

The before

As you can see, it was crazy overgrown.  I've wanted to tackle this for a few weeks and have not put in my small annual flowerbed at the side because of it.  Yes, we are one of those lucky people who have an electrical transformer in our yard.  Which is why we likely have let the bush run wild, but it was time.

The after

The bush had grown weirdly being much shorter on one side than the other so the haircut evened it all out.  It took me forever to try and get things even (2 hours from start to finish) but it is done.  It took another hour to rake up all the bits I cut off, 3 bags worth!  Anyway, that project is now complete.

After toiling away most of the morning and part of the afternoon on the boxwood project, I picked up Mom and we drove to the one garden centre that I feel is super safe for her.  All outside and usually fairly quiet.  She picked out a few flowers and paid.  We also went to a free library in our neighborhood and traded out some books.  She said it was good to get out and almost felt like a normal day except masking up at the garden centre and having to follow the arrows on the floor.  She still hasn't got social distancing down yet as she hasn't really had to but at least she is starting to practise it.  She won't be going inside stores anytime soon but at least now we can spend time together and I can take her places that are safe like the park or the ocean. 

Today I am like a slug.  I may have overdone things yesterday.  Anway, I did manage to buy the flowers to go into the flowerbed by the recently cut boxwood.  That is it for my buying of plants now - everything should be planted up by tomorrow.  The rest of my plants are doing quite well.  I will put the tomatoes outside this week too. 

That's all I've got for today - stay safe and healthy everyone!