Weekend Duty - Emily and Dylan H.

 

This weekend was a beauty!  The weekend started off with a chilly bite but warmed up to be our first true spring day. Eight whole degrees! Our weekend consisted of pruning, pruning and more pruning. The ground was still very frozen, so it eliminated many possible jobs. On Friday and Saturday, we pruned a mass of burning bush behind R2 residence.  Ninebarks have square stems! There were over 30! What a workout. Many of them were well developed and rather large. A little extra elbow grease was needed to lop off some the stems and branches.

 

The latter half Saturday and Sunday morning consisted of cleaning up two hydrangea beds, attempting to edge the frozen ground, cleaning up after litterbugs, and sweeping up much of the sand and salt left from winter walkway maintenance.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday afternoon, we repaired two tools each in the wood shop. It proved to be more of a learning experience than what we originally assumed it would be. Needless to say, Emily will not be a tool repair women when she is done school.  We finished off Sunday afternoon with a takedown of the Arundo donax in the woodland garden and a good power washing of the tractor and trailer. The tractor was very muddy as the warmer temperatures made the drive back to the compound mushy causing Dylan to get the tractor stuck.  It’s now sparkling clean and resting easy in C building!