Ihan pihalla / Yard stuff

Tanaan klo 8.30 "armeijallinen" columbialaisia/meksikolaisia miehia (6kpl - ihan selkeasti siis armeijallinen) saapui meidan pihallemme ja aloittivat pihatyot. Meilla onkin aikamoinen lista asioista, joita talla pihalla pitaa tehda. Niin paljon ja monta etta paatettiin sitten antaa asiantuntijan kasiin koko rytakka. Tulee tehtya huomattavasti nopeammin kuin etta jos me oltaisiin ruvettu tata tekemaan.
Isoin asia on etta puita kaadetaan aikamoinen laja. Suurin osa niista on pienempia ja lahinna siistitaan yleisilmetta mutta joukkoon mahtuu noin 10 isoa mantya. Nama poistetaan turvallisuus ja roskaussyista. Takalaisten mantyjen neulaset on paljon pidempia kuin kotisuomessa ja niita tulee syksylla alas aikamoinen maara. Tukkivat raystaat ja tekevat haravoimisen hankalaksi. Taman lisaksi ihan turvallisuussyista niita poistetaan lahelta taloa. Ne ovat nimittain yleensa ne puut, jotka taalla kovissa tuulissa ja myrskyissa kaatuilee talojen paalle. Mannyllahan ei juuret ole kamalan syvalla niin kuin varmaan koulusta muistatte.
Sitten vihdoinkin aloitetaan myrkkymuratin poistohommat. Etupihalle tulee aitaa, yhdelle kohtaa takapihaa pitaa tehda kuiva kaivo (Mikakohan se on suomeksi? Englanniksi on drywell.) ja kukkapenkit uusitaan, lasten leikkipaikalle tehdaan pohjustukset ja reunat. Aikamoinen maara hommia.
Tanaan kaatuu puut.

Today at 8.30am an "army" of colombian/mexican men (six men - clearly an army, right) arrived to our yard and started some landscaping work. We have a quite a list of things that we want done here. So much that we decided to give the work to a professional. It's going to get done in much shorter time than we ever could have managed.
Biggest part of the work is to get quite a lot of trees cut down. Most of them are small and we're just aiming to clean up the property but there are also about 10 big pine trees that we want to get rid of.  These will be removed because of safety reasons and because they make a mess. Local pine trees have much longer needles that the ones back home in Finland and there's a quite a lot of them that come down in the autumn. The needles block drain pipes and makes raking nearly impossible. In addition to making a mess they are a safety hazard. As we all know from school pine trees have shallow roots and they are the ones that fall on top of houses in storms and strong winds. Too many really big ones are close to the house and we don't want to have the risk of any of them falling on top of our house.
And we are finally starting the work to get rid of the poison ivy. There's going to be a fence in the front yard, we need a dry well in one area of the back yard, we're renewing the flowerbeds, levelling and framing children's play area. Quite a list of jobs.
Today they are cutting trees.