Day 4 - Bees suck

For three hours of work I actually felt I did some clean-up. I knocked out the 2nd bush excluding the stump. I believe I have found 12 bird nests so far in these bushes. While cleaning up around the first two bushes however I noticed carpenter bees (bumble bees for my PA folks) apparently nesting in the ground around the first bush. I was able to clear most of the debris around it, but noticed at least 3 hovering and then going in the ground. I was hoping to dig the stumps up, but I have been stung way to many times in my life already I am not quite fond of going through it again. I have some bee spray the owner left, I may try that first; but since they are in the ground, I am not sure how that works or how to get rid of them when they are more hidden from me.

I bagged a ton of brush yesterday, I am allotted 10 bags of yard waste a week. I currently have 11 and plan to have 20/25 by the end of the weekend. I am averaging 3-4 bags per bush, however, the Japanese Maple will take a bit more. I had 1 whole bag that was just leaves, and not even from my tree. It was all the debris around the bushes collecting for years.

I also cut two big junks of metal from that border stuff. Thanks dad for your recommendation, but I was not able to get the blade back out. So I went with it, might as well kill it first anyway. I have another section to cut yet and then I need to get them into manageable sections. Mark Riley recommended I take them to a metal recycling and try to get some money. I might do that when the weather is not so favorable.

My neighbor to my left stopped by and talked for a few minutes. He told me he could see the difference, I was beginning to wonder so it was nice to hear that.

I think all this work makes the house look bigger and nicer than having it covered all the time. I guess we will see shortly. While cleaning up the debris against the house, I have found some interesting things. I found an aluminum bolt for the gutter, this must have been repair work, I do not see any missing. Then I found the following yesterday.

For the end of a hose to spray plants with food. Plants must have liked this so much they kept the bottle.

 
 This was only half used, I am starting to wonder how you just leave this out in different locations and forget about it.

I thought this was funny, somewhat older, but looks like it could still work, sprinkler system, it is very rusted and will be added to the recycling.

My collection for next Wednesday.

What it looks like as of Friday evening.