DeJoux House

Wow, what a wonderful weekend. No history lessons this week. Far too much to do at the house to be bothered with the past. The 'here and now' is what we were dealing with this week and the 'here and now' is growing fast. Thanks to the wonderful generosity of Daniel's parents, Janet and Jack, I was given a gift card for Lowes . This weekend we used it to buy ourselves a John Deer lawn mower. The grass around the house was getting a bit out of hand, as was the poison ivy. Our intent was to just do the front lawn but John Deer got the better of me. The mower was tough as hell and took no prisoners. We could raise the blade to such a high level and even mow the field out the back. (NB. It was a push mower, not the ride on variety...no easy task!!!) You might remember Bernie the brush hog man who cleared the impenetrable 8-10 feet of brambles and brush from the back field. Since then, we really haven't done much out there. I removed all the wood and ...

This weekend I met Bernie who has a brush hog. He came highly recommended by our tree/garden man Ryan Petit. Within 24 hours of meeting us he was on the property clearing 10 acres of brambles. Daniel was there to experience (and document it) I had to live vicariously through iphone photos. I think it looks amazing and when it grows into a meadow in the spring it will look fantastic.