Okay, the grass is long enough I can recognize species at a glance by blade or form or color, so thinning it out before I mow, took out a lot of bunchgrasses, spikegrasses, and beachgrasses, not to mention a few stray deadnettles, some clover I wiped out last year but not before it set seed, and seafoam is back, that's the real tiny stuff. No more bittercress, though.
Taking a break for some salmon rice and I'll be back out.
Alright, got several bucketloads and dumped them on the ramp which now isn't draining into a matrix of twigs so much as shrinking from drying.
Then built almost all of the next bonfire, the lower backyard's really clear now.
So next is
- getting mud for the retaining wall
- finishing and burning the fire
- stringing a rope to block a gap in the fence with a tarp
- mowing the grass
then once it's short
- hunting for seafoam
Oh, and
- smashing up that last inch of Blueberry Hill,
of course