Posted on 11/21/2020 6:48:02 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
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Your Ginko Tree reminds me of the Tamarak Pine I had at my other farm.
When I first married into a ‘farming family’ I saw this ADORABLE ‘baby’ Tamarak near the pond at my future in-laws farm. I fell in love, as I so easily do. ;)
I got it as a Wedding Gift, along with a number of other trees from his brothers that were all, ‘in the biz.’
Anyone that asks for TREES as a wedding gift made them sure I was going to be a good asset to the family. And I was - for 20 years! ;)
I’m still trying to find out what the seeds look like once my hedge balls dry down a bit. I picked up four of these under an osage orange tree near here.
They’re drying in our beach house/seed starting building.
Next, some Ohio buckeyes...
Initially for a year or two, but likely forever.
Well, it’s good to know your limits. We’re in our 60’s now, both retired and our main goal in the upcoming years is to make our home/farm as age-friendly as we can so we can stay here as long as humanly possible.
I cannot WAIT to tear up yucky old carpeting, and put down laminate, and add walk-in/roll-in showers in both bathrooms and add better lighting here and there, etc.
Old Age Ain’t For Sissies! :)
That’s what I’m sayin’! ;)
We're working at getting things ready for winter. Had no time to spend in the garden over the weekend. Still waiting on the garlic to sprout. Bumper crop of kale and collards waiting to be harvested.
Winterized the camper, put the sides on flatbed trailer and dropped it off at the sawmill, put a bit of surface rock on the driveway, turned the compost heap, tuned up the retaining wall around Mrs. Augie's flowerbed, planted a dwarf spruce tree, and hauled off a mountain of tree pruning scraps.
I dropped most of two middling sized dead mulberry trees and cut it up for stovewood. Also dropped a dead elm and a dead oak out of the fenceline in the back yard. That stuff made a nice addition to the woodpile. I've got at least this much more dead mulberry, and a pair of kentucky coffee trees that still need to come down. The fun never ends around here.
Jealous! Beautiful woodpile! Never underestimate the value of a big woodpile!
Beau moved our woodpile somewhere when he was repairing a water line to the barn and I have no idea where it is now, LOL!
We only use it for bonfires; we have REAL heat in the house now. Yay! :)
I like to have at least six cord of mill waste on the pile by Thanksgiving. I’m quite a bit short of that this year. My trailer has been tied up with other projects so I’m behind. There were at least a dozen empty trailers at he mill when I dropped mine off yesterday. It will be at least two weeks before mine is loaded.
But, there is no shortage of deadwood here, so we’ll be alright. It’s just a bit more work for me. Old fat man needs the exercise anyway. lol
Oh, very pretty! I’m hostessing Christmas this year, so I have BIG PLANS for the Dining Room table, and I’m going to drag out ALL decorations and do it up RIGHT!
Looking forward to it, actually! I may start this weekend. :)
.......your decor’ll be a knockout.......
Bwwwhahahaha!!!!
Gorgeous cactus! And suck a small pot looks like you keep it well fed. The nicest one I have seen.
We want pictures!
OMG suck = such
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