Fighting the English, Ivy, that is.

The yard has an enormous amount of English Ivy. I spent 2 hours fighting back this little portion. I cut out an entire boxwood and then ripped out the ivy so you could see the driveway.

I started out just cutting out the dead portions of the boxwood because the demo going on in the house was too noisy.

I ended up cutting down a boxwood. It was the small one on the end. A lot of it was dead and the base was infested with pillbugs.

I wish I'd take a picture of the newly revealed driveway in the daylight, but it's a little late now.