We had loads of yard work to do today. I haven't had much chance to do anything this Spring,as you know.Between being sick and helping Lori move,and recovering from both,I have been playing catch up. Yesterday the Neighbours From Hell came over to,shall we say, 'enquire' about us cutting back our mulberry tree,which is overhanging their property a few feet. I told them I had been sick for about 2 and a half months this Spring, and had been helping a friend move 900 miles away,and I was getting caught up. I said I had noticed the tree was over the property line on Thursday, and had mentioned to Ken that we needed to cut it back. Ken works all weekend,so we were going to have to wait until today,when he is off. I can't do the cutting by myself,because I'm not strong enough. Ken doesn't usually do yard stuff because he has been having trouble with his back,his knees,and his ankles. He can hardly go to work and be on his feet all night if he spends the day doing yard work. So I usually take care of mowing and weeding and things like that. He helps me do trimming, but I have to say, hey, this needs to be trimmed. For one thing, he knows I'll throw a fit if he cuts something I wanted to keep. I haven't been outside that much in our yard this Spring,but I have done some branch trimming myself,of the smaller stuff. I have been out there so little that I hadn't noticed the mulberry tree had overgrown the line until last Thursday. After I told them that we'd be taking care of it 'tomorrow',they continued to nag and eventually threatened to call the city. I SAID I would do it tomorrow! That was when I just said, "I'm done. I said I'd do it tomorrow. That's the end of it. I'm going in now." So today, that's where we were. We chain sawed a whole hunk of tree down. It was leaning on the gutter and I was going to cut it down anyway. The NFH actually came out and helped Ken finish getting the tree parts down. (They were laying on their fence.) Male Half asked Ken if he had made me mad yesterday. Ken said, "Well,yeah, because you kept going on about the same thing after she told you she was going to do it today." Doofus.
So since I had a busy day, we're going to take a quick look at another travel doll. She's a very pretty lady. (But I'm still not keeping her!)
She represents Pont Aven,a part of Brittany in northwestern France. Pont Aven is named for the river there.
It's referred to as a village, and also as an artists commune. Tourists discovered the place in the 1860's,including several American painters.Beginning in the 1880's Paul Gauguin became a frequent visitor.
The art movement Ecole De Pont Aven,focusing on colour and symbolism, was named after the village.
Her clothes are pinned on to her.
That's the doll for today. I have dug through some more tubs and found all kinds of interesting dolls. We'll be seeing them soon. Tomorrow we'll see another doll.
