Fun with yardwork: October 26 2024

I spent most of my Saturday outdoors — first working in my own yard, and then later in the day helping my sister with some of her projects.

My project was leaf raking. I have an absolutely enormous front yard. My daughter and I got most of it raked into piles, and then about half of it bagged up before we both had to go on to other things.

For the record, she is very silly!

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The next few pictures should give you a pretty good idea of the volume of leaves we had to rake up.

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Here’s a before and after picture of my porch steps.

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After that three hour project, it was time to head to my sister’s house. We meet monthly with our “House Girls” group, which is a group of four good friends who take turns helping one another with home projects.

The projects range from gardening to cleaning to painting and organizing. We’ve been meeting for years, and it’s so much fun.

Today’s project involved collecting, cleaning and processing all of the collard greens, Swiss chard and kale from my sister’s enormous garden.

This picture is from the height of summer, where you can see how successful she is as a gardener.

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Once autumn hits, our gardens decline fast, here in Minnesota. Everything in the garden turns yellow and brown, and we have to harvest any remaining vegetables and clear out the rest.

We washed all the kale, collard greens and Swiss chard, removed the spines, and then cut the leaves up and bagged them in plastic bags for the freezer.

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And here was the product of our work
— bags of greens!

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We also did some other projects like cleaning the old vines off this trellis.

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Thanks for stopping g by!

Photo credits: All of the photos in this post were taken by me and belong to me, unless otherwise noted.

My bio: I am a fiction writer and photographer based in Minnesota. I have had a lifelong love of fiction writing. I earned my MFA in writing from the University of New Hampshire. My short stories have appeared in a range of literary journals and anthologies, and my first short story collection, Somewhere in Minnesota is available on Amazon US as well as international Amazon sites., Barnes & Noble or from the publisher.