March 29-30, 2013

Another nice weekend with highs of 70 degrees and a light rain overnight and into Sunday morning.

Garden

We picked up a set of Georgia Sweet onions on the way out and immediately planted them. We should have inspected them closer, because many of them were shriveled up and had to be discarded. There was also a lot of yellow. Hopefully they will bounce back.None of the kale, spinach, radishes we had planted had come up. The soil was pretty dry, so I can only presume there has not been enough consistent moisture. The mint, to my dismay, is already growing.

Rain Barrels

The one by the house was full, but the other only about a quarter full. Sally noticed the faucet was dripping, which would explain it being low. After the overnight rain it was at about 80% full.

Cows

Jeff's fence is still down and there are cow pies everywhere. Luckily only a few by the house, but many in front and behind the barn. Sally had me role three big hollow logs and wedge them between the barn and the bluff to keep the cows from getting behind the barn. I got terribly muddy doing this. The cows are also pulling up the few pecan trees that have survived as well as the volunteer walnuts I had protected from the brush hog.

The logger still has not come for Jeff's downed timber (equipment problems). I think Jeff was holding off on the fence until after the timber is pulled out of the way.

Nectarine

The only fruit blooming so far is the nectarine and the wild peach on the trail to the barn. I am now certain my Alberta is a gonner.

Blue Birds

There were no nests in the bird houses out front and back of the house. (Inspite of seeing some blue birds checking out one of them two weeks earlier.) But there were nests in the house part way down the hill and the one at the pond, with this egg was in the one on the hill.

Burn Cedars

Satureday morning, in a light rain, I went down and burned a bunch of the cedar limbs behind the pond. It looks like it will take me two or three more burns to get rid of all of them. It also wore me out, as I was dragging the rest of the day. It was almost too hot for burning. At one point I thought I smelled burning hair (my hat has a big hole in the front, I ditched it.)

Firewood

Friday I split five logs, and another three while Sally was loading the truck. We hauled them back to town where we will store them until next winter. I think we have burned more wood in March than the rest of the winter (most all that was in town has is gone).