Weekend blog

April 6^th-8^th, 2018

Taylor & Chris

We came Friday morning ready for whatever tasks were assigned to us, we were ready conquer our weekend duty and get right down and dirty. Before we got our tasks assigned to us we learned that our weekend would be planned around making people feel safer when wondering around the campus.  After we gathered our tools and equipment, we were headed out to discover what our tasks would be over the next two days. After finding out our duties, we figured out our plan of attack. The first task we decided was to take out some cedar trees located across from the Outback Shack, the reasoning was because anyone could throw/hide things in there from security. 

Then after a long struggle with the trees and the snow, and without dampening our spirits, we moved to pruning back some burning bushes (Euonymus alatus) that were blocking the view from the east windows of J building and for security reasons. 

Saturday, we started our day by finishing up pruning back the Burning Bushes (Euonymus alatus) and took down any low-lying tree branches on the few Maidenhair trees (Ginkgo biloba)  to save the heads of the people that take care of the campus turf, and anyone else walking below. We thinned out a couple other smaller plants. After our nutrition break we headed to the other side of J building to cut back some Annabelle Hydrangeas (Hydrangea arborescens ‘Annabelle’) to promote new growth. After cleaning our site up and disposing of the cut stalks, we had one last task to do before our day was done: we had to fill a hole with topsoil so when the weather permits and decides to stay nice, grass seed can be planted and grass will grow.

With the weather still fighting our every wish we got right down to work on Sunday. Most of our day was spent on the back side of Peregrine House Residence (R2). We were tasked with cutting back some Yews around the windows so no can hide in them. The next part of our day after lunch was still back behind Peregrine House Residence but the Yews were near a fire exit so we cut those back and pruned of some suckers out of the Easter Redbud (Cercis canadensis). After we finished cleaning up the site and taking all the branches to the compost pile we both decided that overall it was a good weekend and signed out for the last time.