Day Three

On inspection, the garden was still overgrown with grass, wild bushes and the thistle, not to mention the rocks, scattered lumber and the spirit house.

'O dear,' I said, 'there is so much to put right here, and only myself to do it.'  I thought the grass and bushes should be my priority, since they could be harboring mosquitos and snakes.  

Having no lawn mower, I decided to use my kitchen scissors on the grass.  The bushes, I found, could be pulled up by the roots.  The thistle was again laid low, though not eradicated, since I still had nothing to dig with.