Pulling and pruning.....

 5:38 am - Thursday - August 7th - LPG&RVR - 49° F, humidity 39%, wind 1 mph out of the east....mostly sunny today with a forecast high of 86° F.  On this date in 2017 TLE and I hiked to the top of Mt. Washburn in Yellowstone National Park....

....we hiked a total of 14.6 miles that day.

After several unbusy days we finally broke out of it a little with 10 cart rentals Wednesday.  That's the first time the golf course has been out of single digit cart rentals in 4 days.  Once I had  suitable number of carts staged I headed out to turn on the tree irrigation, then began another morning of weeding.  

You might recall I spent some time in the back of the gravel pull through sites (1-10) pulling Russian Thistle a couple of weeks ago, and gathered one 55 gallon barrel of same.  That was just the big stuff one could easily pull out by the roots.  What was left was much smaller and required the use of a hula hoe.  By the time I finished an hour later I had another 55 gallon barrel full....

....next I headed over to the long slope which borders the group firepit area....it's about 100 yards long, and I had noticed a lot of the Russian Thistle, plus other weeds growing there over the past couple of weeks.  That took another good hour to pull....

.....and I garnered another over full 55 gallon barrel.  

Still having a lot of time until TLE's lunch break I grabbed some pruning hooks and did some tree limb pruning down at the 'Night Office'. There were four trees there that I must drive under when mowing which had low hanging branches.  This has been an issue for me for all four years we've been working here at LPG&RVR.  By time I finished it was time to give TLE her break.

After lunch I began washing some of the carts which had returned, and then headed down to the row of trees on the slope just above or employee sites.  Those trees have a lot of 'suckers' growing at the base of many of the trees, so I began trimming them back.....

....I managed to get about half of them pruned before it was time to head for home.  I'll pick them up on Thursday morning and haul them to the burn pile.

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