I can tell I was tired...I re-read last night's post, and I had several misspellings....

Well, the weekend was good. Three dogs and one puppy, and only one accident. Gryffd is SOOOO cute. I don't really like Corgi's, but Gryffd made me reconsider. I only hammered my finger once, but did manage to swear in three languages and quite loudly. I learned how to do quite a number of things; I've never been very confident with a saw, I am now much better. I can hang siding like a pro (hardiplank anyway...we all know I can rip it off like a madwoman). I can certainly swear like a professional contractor. I do have some poison ivy in the back yard (and to think that two years ago I'm pretty sure I ripped it out with gloves and shoved it into a bag) that I need to get rid of. It's coming over the fence from the neighbors yard. I also need to go to another neighbor (the nice lady) and ask her if I can come over and jack up our shared fence, as a section has decided to dangerously lean into my half of the yard. I share my backyard with six families (I have a cul de sac lot)....so I have yet another family to talk to about their two dead fifty foot pine trees that are in danger of whacking my house. Joys! See why I want to move to the country and have a farm house....?

Not that there are many arborists reading my blog...but...I have two small...maybe twenty year old dogwoods in my backyard that are taking the drought bad...they are dropping deadleaf already. Should I: cut off the dead limbs, let the deadleaf drop and leave it alone, leave the entire tree alone until next year? Any ideas?