After spending 14 hours a day for a week on Oracle, Oracle and a pinch of PostgreSQL I decided to spend the three days afterwards on something as low tech as I could find, the garden.  Actually I did spend sometime processing my e-mail and getting the flash export from freemind of Mollison's guide for bioregional organization, which is really cool, check it out.

Anyway, the backyard is looking so much better now and the dogs spent most of the being my entourage. I had to break out the a gas lawn mower as the grass was too tall for the push mower.  I don't remember how many bags of grass clippings but I filled two compost bins and used a lot of grass clippings as mulch.

I weeded the three strawberry beds which were pretty badly over grown, pulled a lot of morning glory fragments from the garden and long roots from the berry patch.  I also staked some of the new raspberry stalks and cut out quite a bit of blackberry starts.

The other big task that I finally completed was to clear the back yard and porch of nearly all of the equipment that I had scattered about.  I finally have a back porch and most of the yard looking pretty good and should be pretty easy to maintain.  Of course the first time I used the table on the porch for eaching breakfast, George christened the morning by wandering into the backyard  and poop with his butt pointed towards the back of the house.