It’s been a long day out, today!
I had an appointment at a nearby city to do a stress test. Part of the ongoing testing to try and figure out why my stamina has dropped so severely since last summer, and trace the source of my fatigue. This is one of the tests to see if there might be problems with my heart.
Continue readingWell, I’m certainly glad I was able to finish clearing out that old tire planter when I did, because it started raining that night, and it’s been raining on and off ever since.
So much so, we even found mushrooms starting to grow on one of the maple logs stacked behind the house!
Continue readingI was finally able to get back to working on taking out the broken tire planter today, and was able to get it finished!
I am so happy to get that done!
This is where I left off, last time.
Continue readingI wasn’t able to get back to working on getting the tire planter out (I can wiggle it a bit more, though! :-D ), but yesterday evening I decided to deadhead the spirea by the storage house.
I also cut them back from the grapes they were starting to encroach on again.
As I was doing that, I noticed some dead branches and figured I may as well take them out, too.
And those other ones.
Oh, and there are a few more…
Just a bit more…
The next thing I knew…
Continue readingToday, I decided to tackle the bent up old tire planter.
Here is how it looked before I started.
Continue readingWe have a provincial election coming up, with voting day on the same day we have a medical appointment for my husband in the city, so we are taking advantage of the advance polls being open right now.
I’d already voted and had to go through the whole registration process a few days ago, so when the girls and I came in, I had some time on my hands while they did the paperwork.
The location just happens to have a Pokemon Go gym at it, so I went outside to conquer it.
While I was doing that, I noticed some beautiful fungi at the bottom of a maple tree.
While pausing to take pictures, I noticed something amazing about the tree.
I’m going to stack the photos below and hopefully give you some sense of what I was seeing.
Woodpeckers have drilled a trench up the tree, then into the tree, with holes opening it up along the way.
That blows my mind is that the tree is somehow still alive! There is very little bark left on it.
While taking those pictures, I noticed the tree next to it.
With this, just a short distance from my head.
I have a hard time believing no one has noticed it, since it’s clearly been there a while. Which means it’s been left there on purpose. This is a municipal owned property, and all I can think when I see that is “liability.” !!
I can see where other trees have been taken down, plus there are pieces of tree trucks strewn about artistically in the grass. The trees are obviously tended to, in a general sense.
Though the power lines to the building run right through several trees.
*sigh*
Anyhow.
I just thought that swooping, bird created trench and holes in the one tree was really amazing and wanted to share it. :-)
The Re-Farmer
I had some company while doing my rounds this morning.
Beep Beep also joined me, emerging from somewhere beyond our driveway.
We have been having plenty of rain during the night, which is making things really beautiful.
Like the berries on this self-sown asparagus along the eastern fence line.
So beautiful!
The Re-Farmer
I will start with the good news, first.
Mild Cheddar went through surgery very well!
Continue readingA couple of days ago, my daughters noticed something wrong with one of the kittens.
Check this out.
In the last while, the kittens have become more interested in following me around as I do my morning rounds. Especially when I go to switch the memory card in the trail cam. Usually, it’s just one or two kittens, though.
This morning, my daughter came along, and that really got their attention, so we had 4 of them from the start. :-D
