March 15-16, 2013

Twas a very nice weekend with a high temperature of 80 both Friday and Saturday. (Turned cold, windy and drizzly all day Sunday.)

Garden

Sally did it all, planting more seeds and watering once again. Nothing we had planted has come up, though we thought we saw sign of some spinach sprouting. Without consistent rain (or watering) the seeds just won't germinate.

New Kenkel

They did send a replacement, a whole new cracker which arrived on Thursday. Free! It was also accompanied by some instructions and hints for cracking: adjust the height to half the size of the nut and allow the shell to fly away while cracking. Those, plus the fact that this unit just worked better yielded good results -- bigger pieces and less crushing of the nut meat. After filling the bird feeders, I immediately mounted the new unit to a board and tried it out. What a nice difference.

Spring

With such warm weather I began de-winterizing. I drug out another hose and hooked it up, took the insulation out of the top of well house, and setup the hammock stand. We had a very nice hour or so in the hammock on Saturday.

Trim Cedars

I took the Stihl down to the back of the pond to continue trimming off the limbs of what I believe are the last two cedars blown over by the tornado. The first lay right up the draw coming down from the cave. The other was across gum creek just before it feeds into the pond.

I left the limbs lye where they fell on the first, but I didn't want the others to wash into the pond with a heavy rain, so I drug them up the hill toward the huge oak. I hate dragging cedars.

Ticks

With the mercury reaching 80 I was not at all surprised to find a couple of ticks crawling on me. Sally found the same number on Tender.

Cow Pies

Jeff has still not done anything about the fence, so his cows were occupying our pasture the whole day Friday, though they did not come back across on Saturday. They had also been back up around and behind the barn, though not as bad as the week before. I shoveled some of it, but never got back of the barn.

Tender Bathed

Being warm and Tender needing a bath, we gave one to him using the hose. It was warm enough for him to get mostly dry outside.