Sometimes You Need Professional Help

One area demanded backhoes: the no-man's-land between our driveway and the road. Here's what it looked like before Hughes took care of it. (When we moved in it looked even worse, but Dad showed us that it was possible to mow it when he visited.)



And here's how it appeared in the spring of '04 (and now, except that everything's grown a bit). Also, note the lack of six-foot thistles: Don leather gauntlets, hack with limb loppers (that's what I call the branch-cutting tool), remove with pitchfork, spray Round-Up on stump, repeat.