Fantastic! It’s wonderful to have handy men in the mix!
I ‘Tom Sawyer-ed’ Mom into helping me clean up the landscaping across the front of the house today that had been decimated by the PUPPIES raised last season.
Took us about 30 minutes and things look good as new and aside from one Sedum that doesn’t seem to be coming back, all else is well. I DO need a few bags of brown mulch to really freshen it up, but I think a trip to Menard’s is on the docket for this upcoming week, so that’ll be covered. ;)
Beau said to Mom this afternoon, ‘I see she ‘Tom Sawyer-ed’ you into helping her today.’ Mom said, ‘I know what she’s up to even before she asks me to help!’ LOL!
Mom was also VERY helpful in the THREE of us tackling Ithaca (the Mule), today. He had somehow gotten his halter over one ear and it was rubbing on his head and causing him some pain. Ithaca LOVES Mom to the Moon and back, so she was able to coax and settle him down enough with carrots, apples and Milk Bones so we could rope him, steady his head and cut the halter off of him. She’s aces.
Never a dull moment around here, for sure! ;)
Gorgeous day today, sunny & high in low 80’s, a beautiful Spring day. Mowed the back 2/3 in a tank top it was so warm :-) I had just finished mowing early afternoon when the wind kicked up after being dead quiet all morning - advance winds from a front coming through overnight with showers tomorrow, highs in the 50’s, wind gusts 30 - 40. The weather around here is a real roller coaster.
I did a little chainsawing after mowing & scouted out/made a list of what I will be cutting down next. I wanted to spray some areas that are either hard to mow or I can’t mow, but again, too windy. I ended up messing around in the shop & made a carpenter bee trap - they are all around the old pole shed. I need a screw eye to hang it & can’t find any (I have seen some somewhere)!
Wind was down a little after 5:30 so tried burning what was on our burn pile - a couple of gusts that had the flames roaring convinced me it was still too windy.
I have several projects in the shop such as putting the potting bench together, building the two raised beds, & getting all the tools laying around/in boxes organized in those 30 metal drawers (magnetic labels came Friday) or set aside to hang on peg board. I can hardly find anything right now with the shop in such a state of disarray from moving tools, etc. from the old garage. I’m tired from being on the go most of the day, but if I can get a ‘second wind’, I might go work in the shop tonight - I left the doors open today so the cool air inside blew out & it’s a comfortable temperature, no wood stove needed.