Yesterday was such a nice day to work around outside. We spent most of the day in the garden. The dogs napped in the shade while we weeded, cut, trimmed, raked, swept and so on. It’s looking pretty good. The next garden job on my list is to cut some big dead limbs off one of the apple trees and cut and stack that wood to season for the stove. The two apple trees are tall and old and were pretty much ignored. I want to take the dead limbs off both for safety and for firewood. Once the dead limbs are down, I’m going to run some LED lights up into that tree for the summer.

At the very back of the property, we have about 30 feet of what I can only call woods. I have a little bit of clean-up work to do back there that I’ve been ignoring. The dogs like to chase our cat Jacques back there. Jacques encourages this. I have a bit of cleaning up to do back there. There’s a composter I made from skids that was displaced when we put a fence around the property. We put the fence in because the dogs could get through and over the old chain link fence and we wanted to keep them safe in the yard.

The locust out front is finally coming into leaf. It and the small rose-of-sharon out back seem to be the last things to show themselves. This season everything seems to be in super growth mode, compared to last year.