Lions and Tiger and... Yellow Jackets! Oh, my!

 So I went back out yesterday and got more cleared.  The third compost bin is now not only full, but over full.  And after learning lessons earlier this year, I trimmed thing off in sizes that would easily fit the compost bin, although not the wheelbarrow.  

So when I left off, it was with the Nandina bushes about halfway down.  And the smilax stabby vine off and tucked to the side.  

Now you can actually see the old door that hasn't been used for over a decade.  And things are starting to look better.

Today I went out and took down the last of that.  And got to discover that deep in the last Nandina was a pretty decent size yellow jacket nest.  I'm highly, nastily allergic to yellow jackets.  Not quite anaphylaxis point, but not far from it either depending on where the sting is.  So it was an immediate stop and inside to get hornet spray.  

I don't normally have hornet spray on hand, but we had found another yellow jacket nest about two weeks ago.  So I got to play shoot the yellow jacket with moving targets.  And I've got better aim than I realized.  Only one survived, and it took off until I was almost completely done. 

The last bit of clearing out was done with the sawzall and a pruning blade because the canes of bamboo were too close together for the loppers.  And it was multiple times.  I had to get most of them down low enough that I could get the rake through there again.  And then take them down even further.  I finished today at this point.  I decided it was time to stop when the last yellow jacket decided to come back to explore. 

Tomorrow I'll pull that last section of edging with the mattock.  And the last of the liriope.  And then probably measure for the last of the elderberry and camellia bushes that will fit in this space.