A nice warm weekend

We finally got a nice weekend. Weather wise. The high was about 78. So we headed over to Mom's to do some much needed clean up in her yard. She wanted part of her peach tree dug up but we convinced her to keep it and just let us trim it a little. It has the most beautiful flowers every year and some nice peaches too. It sits on the edge of her yard, right on the property line and gets its fair share of neglect. It looks more like a bush than a tree. We saved some of the clippings and made a beautiful oriental looking decoration.

We also took a whack at her orange tree. Which was still loaded with oranges even though she did her best to pick them all before the cold weather. Despite the cold the oranges were yummy. Not frozen at all.

We picked them all except for four or five green ones. Then Chris trimmed the bush down so she can reach the oranges.

Now she just has to get to squeezing and shipping them to relatives that don't have access to fresh oranges.

We trimmed some of her azalea bushes even though it is a bad time (spring buds were lost) because they were in the way of her path to the back yard. We also trimmed down a major oak tree branch for the same reason. And squared up her grapefruit tree, which by the way had two inch long thorns. I feel sorry for her garbage man who has to pick that up (hopefully he has good gloves). After digging up two oak trees and replanting two gardenias that got dug by mistake and trimming bushes and trees and dead limbs Chris sat down for a break. All in all, it was a beautiful day and came with a free meal made by Mom. What could be better.