I'm gearing up for splinters, cuts and bruises as well. Sounds familiar.

I'm thinking the original settlers must have been a mess.

Well not really. The late next door neighbor's property and this one used to be one lot. It used to be farm land. The house here wasnt built until around 1978 or so I believe.

As for unleashing the beast, heres the back story to that. There was this tree in the backyard near the shed which none of us could stand. Anytime you walked by, you would get hit by it. I also believe it was a stinkweed tree? Not sure. But lemme tell you, it STUNK when it got cut down. So last year we had my friend come over with his chainsaw and chop the thing down. Well about 2 weeks or so later, theres this vine taking over fence any which way it could go. Well at first I was tracing the stems right into the left over tree stump, which I still think may be PART of the problem. But upon further investigation, I found a stump that had a bunch of old vines going any which way possible. Whether thats the source of the "beast" I dont know.

Also last year, when I was digging holes for the pumpkins, I accidentally came across steps IN THE GROUND. I believe they had a root cellar, which I think would make sense why there is a HUGE pit in my back yard, which is now being used as a compost area.

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I can relate. twisted my ankle cleaning up the back yard. Stupid hickory nuts. who would plant a hickory nut tree in a small back yard. by the time i get anything growing under it they fall again and everything is dead. Not to mention that it sounds like machine gunfire in the fall during storms.

lots of cuts and scraps and sore muscles to prove I was working in the yard this weekend. Of course my nails were looking good for the first time in years. Not any more.
Girl at work looked at my hands and said...."gardening time again?" lol

Carey