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Hedge Trimming

Did more work on the egress window, but not worth showing.  I did manage to do some serious trimming on the shared hedge between my neighbor and I.  It had become so large an unmanageable that it was time to cut it back.  Didn't have a very good picture of it before, except for this shot I took of the car.

Here it is now.  It's almost 6' shorter in some areas.

You can actually see the house over the hedge now, where before you couldn't.  Right now it's thin and ugly, as we (my neighbor helped) cut so much out it exposed a lot of thin areas, but it will grow back in.  Plus, having it this short makes it much easier to maintain, as previously, even on a ladder you couldn't reach to trim the top.  Now you can reach everything with a hedge trimmer.

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