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"I have pretty much decided that this entire holiday weekend will be dedicated to yardwork. I&amp;#039;ve really let it get away from me, and before my neighbors build a fence to block off my property or they begin filming the next installment of Jurassic Park in my mulch beds, I need to get this under control. I&amp;#039;ve decided that I&amp;#039;m tearing out all the shrubbery and a tree on one side of the house - there are a few bushes there as well as some rasberry bushes that Peter has climbing up an elaborate trellis-type thing. It&amp;#039;s just a mess. It&amp;#039;s overgrown in the extreme and the mulch bed around it is constantly full of weeds. I don&amp;#039;t particularly like rasberries and I absolutely hate pulling weeds, so I spoke with a neighbor (who happens to be a landscaper) and he&amp;#039;s going to help me tear it all out. I&amp;#039;m thinking about a nice rock garden with a few easy-to-maintain rosebushes will fill in the gap and make it a lot easier to maintain. I&amp;#039;ve also decided to offer Anna the chance to earn an allowance by pulling weeds on a regular basis. I can&amp;#039;t pay her much, but she&amp;#039;ll be thrilled to get some spending money and I&amp;#039;ll be thrilled to have weed-free mulch beds. I&amp;#039;m going to be walking around the house inside this week, too, looking for ways to simplify my household chores. I&amp;#039;ve made a &amp;quot;cleaning calendar&amp;quot; so I can break a lot of it up into daily tasks. I think that&amp;#039;ll be good for a start. This way I won&amp;#039;t be spending my whole kid-free weekend in cleaning and drudgery. Do any of you have any tips for me on simplifying the household and yard chores? I could really use some suggestions! I&amp;#039;ll be busy this weekend, but I&amp;#039;ll still be finding time to enjoy myself. I hope all of you have a terrific holiday weekend!! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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