Summer semester

This summer I am taking one online class. I am planning to graduate next spring, and with 32 credits remaining I thought it would be good if I took a class this summer to help relieve some of the class load for next year so I am taking psych 5100, history and systems. .
I have enjoyed the little break I had between the end of spring semester and the start of my summer class. After 8 months of classes, reading, writing and exams, I have been enjoying working in my yard.

Last weekend, we cut down 4 trees in our backyard. They were Chinese Elms which are pretty much junk trees that try to populate the area around themselves with more Chinese Elms and also send out suckers around the base of their trunks. We still have 3 or 4 more that we intend to remove. We have some Sycamores and Maples that we will be planting to replacing the elms.
This picture is a doe that has visited our backyard a couple of times this week to munch on the branches we stacked in the back of our yard.


We also planted our garden on Saturday. It doesn't look like much right now, but hopefully later this summer it will be full of corn, peas, beans, tomatoes, beets, carrots, squash, etc.


This is the project that I am starting next, or at least the "before" picture. It is going to be a flower garden in my front yard. I think I have my work cut out for me. Fortunately I have a teenage son who loves working outside with me and is excited to make some improvements to our yard. I'll post more pictures as the project progresses.