Dig Dug

Dig Dug. Did you ever play that game when you were a kid? Or as a much younger old person?

The first day we had this house, we cut down all this plant life that was
1) Shading the south side of the structure from the merciless sun and
2) Infiltrating the house through every crack it could find.

Even though we cut it down, we left the roots intact.

As of a week or so ago, those roots are intact no longer. I spent maybe three evenings on the task, digging, hacking, carefully avoiding the air conditioner line filter with the point of my spaded shovel. It was a lot of work, but it needed to be done, because those roots were up against the foundation wall like there was a party and all the destructive plant life was invited.

Also, I learned that our foundation not only has a poured concrete footing (an uncertainty until I saw it with my own eyes) but a course of solid blocks beneath the three courses of hollow concrete blocks. Now to finish insulating it...

Deuteronomy 29:28 - And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as [it is] this day.