Stripped ...

Yesterday I stripped our fence of its ivy.  What fence?  Oh the one BURIED under this mess.  And that's a tree to the left, back behind the soccer ball.

Even the tree was getting tangled up in it.  Not only did it look messy, but I realized it was also destroying our fence & hiding little creatures in it.  Not good.  The boys actually drew my attention to the decaying fence when they started pulling ivy down to use for their "Jungle Party".  [So cute ... here's a pic of that]

Thanks to my pruning shears & my little tree saw, the fence and tree can breathe again.

I have to laugh at myself... see that paper bag on the ground?  I thought I'd be using that to collect the ivy.  Maybe I underestimated just a little ...

Ahhh ... inhale, exhale, little tree.

  

Apparently, somebody else caught the "stripping bug".