Garage and Ivy

Yesterday, I did my weekly cutting of the ivy. I can only cut so much each week as the yard waste can doesn't hold much. I hope to have my initial cutting done by early fall, and then this job goes from "to do" into maintenance mode. There has already been a lot of regrowth on the part of the ivy I cut just a month or so ago, so I know I am in for some maintenance. I hope I can get my ivy cutting down to just once every two or three weeks, but we'll see. I wonder what bad karma I am working off to have neighbors on 3 side that fancy overgrown ivy?

Today I finally finished rearranging the garage in anticipation of the new door being installed. It took many weeks, but the front 10 feet are empty. The garage looks better, but is much less organized than it was since I had to focus on getting the stuff into the back half without regard for organizing it. I am very unhappy that after over 2 years of living here so much of our stuff is still in the garage, but what can you do? The house just isn't in good enough shape for a lot of it to be inside yet. And no, it's not "junk" that should be thrown away - that would by my nightmare to have a garage full of stuff that should be trashed. C thinks it actually looks better than most people's garages but I think it looks horrible.

Now we just have to wait for the door we ordered to be delivered to the installer and for them to contact us.