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Last Sunday my brother and family came to STL to help get some of the stuff out of the garage. In relatively short order we got the car out, then up on a trailer and stuffed with junk (metal stuff). All that will now go to a recycling place somewhere near Jefferson City. He also chopped down the big ugly bush that was in front of the house. I will have to dig the stump out sometime later this summer. When we removed the same type of bushes from in front of our parents’ house we simply hooked a log chain up to the bush, then to a tractor and yanked them out – I don’t think that would be possible in the city.

Tonight I am waiting for friends from Kansas City to arrive. Tomorrow they are going to help me tackle the rest of the stuff in the garage so the construction dumpster can be delivered next week. The first order of business tomorrow morning will be to load all the appliances and other similar metal objects (there are some small furnace like things) onto a trailer – these will be taken to a recycling center here in STL. Probably will not get much money for them but at least they will all be removed and also won’t be filling up landfill space somewhere. After that is done there is some old crappy furniture that will need to be dismantled (i.e. chopped into pieces) and then some stuff (lumbers & doors mainly) that needs to be moved to the other side of the garage (stuff that might have some use in the future). I am hopeful that this can all be done in less than 5 hours so my visitors can do something in STL besides work.

Earlier tonight I bought a reel type lawn mower as I need to trim the grass. I decided this was probably the best bet as gas engines and I never got along when I was a kid. An electric mower would be an option except the power is not on over there. There isn’t much yard to worry about so I think the reel mower will do fine.