All in a Day's Work

Yesterday was my day off.  I generally do something around the yard that day.  Both Merril and I had things we wanted to get done that were important to us both.
Merril spent the day fixing chairs.  I undid the screws and she attached the material. While she did that I did something I had avoided for months.  Attended to the wood pile.
The pile had been there over 10 years.  Dad and I had put the frame together and put wood on as well as bricks and iron and any materials thought to be worth holding onto.  Things I thought “I may use on day.”  Some material had been used but the pile had become a mess, an eye-sore and was falling apart.
I ended up sorting the wood into several piles.  Stuff I was going to keep, stuff that was good that I no longer wanted (which was taken down the front under a sign “give away”, rubbish stuff to go to the dump and stiff we may use to build a screen.  The metal was going to the dump and the bricks I have saved and placed into storage.
It was a big job.  Merril and I will do our first dump run this morning.  It is one of probably three.
I am pleased at what has been achieved.  It really is the start of the development of an area which will house fruit trees.  I see it as a four stage project.  Clearing the area, trips to the dump, preparing for planting, and planting.  A start has been made.
I actually got to meet one of the neighbours.  She was from a house containing people we have never met that backs onto our place.  I heard a small voice say hello.  She looked Vietnamese and told me she was 86.   She also said she does not speak a lot of English.  That I believe as I hardly understood a word.
But meeting her was a bonus as far as I am concerned.  We pray for them regularly as “the people we don’t know.”
I was ready to give it away due to rain but when I came in it did not last long and did not rain again.
Also I had avoided the area as I did not know what kreepy crawlies might be there.  Turned out I saw one large spider and a number of lizards and worms.  I can handle worms for sure.
Merril finished her task late in the day.  A hard days work for us both but one that was totally worth it.