Yardwork

I'm in the midst of the worst movie ever - "Poison Ivy 2 - Going Systemic".
I have another email in to my Dr. I really would prefer not to go back on Prednisone. I also have a call out to a poison ivy removal place, just to get an idea of the cost. Also a call out to a junk removal place to see how much it will cost to get ri of what's already bagged.

This was the first round.

If you zoom in on the picture, you can see were the vines were so thickly matted, I was literally rolling it up like a carpet. This made taking it up easy, but bagging it hard. About 4 hours later, I had made it out to the center of the wall.

6 bags full!

This first stretch I was super thorough. I pulled out 95% of the vine-y bits. This was Saturday. I thought I was suited up to do battle, showered twice, but woke up Sunday with that old familiar burning/itching feeling on my neck. Seems I wasn't careful enough. Pissed off, I walked out and went at the other side. Only to discover I had given myself a grand case of tendonitis in my left wrist the previous day, and I could barely grasp anything with that hand.
Now thoroughly incensed, I did manage to get the other side, though not nearly as completely as the first side.

10 bags full.

I had every intention of getting to the telephone pole there at the end. I ran out of piss-tivity about 10 feet short. Everything hurt, everything itched, and if I could have, I would have sat right down and cried. But I couldn't, because I likely would have plopped myself down on more poison ivy.
I uncovered the front for the most part, though.
The payoff is this:

Before.

After.

The large bushes are lilacs, as far as I can tell, and are still alive even though the PI and bittersweet had done their best to try to pull them down. All the vines up into them have been cut off, at least, so they won't get any worse. I've put down 100lbs of lime in the total area of the front yard, and put bone meal under the lilacs. After they bloom (if they bloom) I'm going to take a deep breath and cut them back to about 3' high. I've seen it done to leggy overblown lilacs. It's scary but it does work.
I also put down a pound of dutch white clover on all that newly exposed dirt (and around the rest of the yard) to try to get something established so the dirt doesn't run away.
I'm pretty sure there's a wisteria vine at the far end near the telephone pole. I'm not sure what to do about that, because it should be trained up something, and right now it's running wild on some lilacs. If I can get it under control, it can stay. (Go run up the telephone pole!)
If I can't, it should probably come out, since it will crush any vegetation in it's path.

Grape hyacinth

Lilac buds