Drinking from a firehose

Knowing Rob is looking out for mom helps enormously.

As for the backyard, that would work if the stuff growing were annuals. They're all perennials and will just come back even worse next year. I spent about six hours out there last Saturday and put a dent into what remains to be done. We went out for another hour and half last night and took down a mulberry bush. It was tree-height (say one and a half stories), three or four stems, and branched out over probably a ten-foot spread. I took the pruners to what came down and completely filled a yard waste bag and started another before it was too dark to do more. There's still a large pile of brush on the lawn but with all the mosquito-borne diseases out there I wasn't going to risk getting more bites or hurting myself by not being able to see what I was cutting.