I have the most awesome brother in the world.
He made the hour + drive out this morning to get the gate up for us, early enough that it was finished well before I drove my daughter to work! He even had enough time to swing by and join my mother for church before heading home.
What a sweetheart!
I got to help. :-)
Continue readingI was up earlier this morning, heading out to switch the memory card on the trail cam so I could check the files before heading out. I left the critter stuff for my older daughter to do later, since I was heading for the airport after dropping off her sister.
It was less than an hour later when we headed out, and immediately noticed a dustiness to the air – except it was in all directions.
There was also the smell of smoke.
Continue readingWhile the kitties were out and about yesterday, they were not about to turn down the comforts of a mom!
Beep Beep lay down and was immediately accosted. :-D
One of the aunties came by for food and was thoroughly confused by the mass of kittens, everywhere.
She kept going back and forth, moving away from one group of kittens, only to be blocked by another, and another. It was so funny to see!
This morning, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were slightly more relaxed about it. :-D
Now, it’s time to paint gate posts again, before it gets too hot. I decided to give them 24 hours to cure before a second coat, instead of doing it last night, just to be on the safe side!
The Re-Farmer
Yesterday, we went into the city for the last of our Costco shopping. In the process, I swung by a Canadian Tire and picked up the cleaner my brother recommended to get rid of all the lubricant used to get the old hing pins off.
Gotta love all those warnings.
EXTREME DANGER
VERY FLAMMABLE, POISON, IRRITANT
While doing my rounds this morning, I found some of my mother’s wild flowers suddenly blooming.
I remember seeing this splash of red in one area, last year. Now that I’ve cleared around it, I can actually get to them. Every time I walked past the area, I would look and wonder which of the plants had those bright red flowers. Yesterday, I didn’t even notice flower buds on these, yet this morning, they’re blooming!
The buds for these flowers have been visible for some time, but this is the first one to really start opening up. They are all over the area. I don’t know when my mother planted here, but they’ve been seeding themselves and spreading on their own, ever since. :-)
While going through the maple grove, I checked on the wild strawberries.
I found 4 ripe berries. :-D
They are so incredibly tiny!
The teeniest of strawberries. :-D
Wild!
The Re-Farmer
Happy Canada Day!
My daughter and I headed out a bit earlier than usual for her shift, but we probably should have left even earlier. Roads around her work were already being closed off to traffic, and people were setting up their chairs to watch the parade. Some were even already setting up in the cross roads! So it was a quick drop off, then I headed home. I ended up bypassing town and taking a different route to another highway, then back tracking, just to get out of town!
Which gave me the opportunity to finally do the transplanting I’ve had on my to-do list for a while.
Continue readingWhile doing my rounds last night, I spotted some new babies in the maple grove.
We have baby wild strawberries! :-)
As I was walking around the house later on, I found myself being watched.
Continue readingI’m absolutely thrilled that my brother and his wife are over for the weekend! Their RV trailer fits in the inner yard, so they even brought their own “house” with them.
My brother, being how he is, was soon working on the damaged gate. More specifically, the gate posts. He’d actually been working on it for a while before he asked me to come and document what he was doing, so he’d managed to get the first of the remaining hinges off by then.
Continue readingYesterday evening, my older daughter told me I needed to go check out my rocks.
After some initial confusion, having already completely forgotten that I’d spray painted some rocks in the yard bright orange, I went and took a look.
Then squealed with glee.
Somewhere in between cleaning the eaves and working on various other things, she took the time to grab some stencils and a can of spray paint from her supplies, and made my day!
:-D
The Re-Farmer
I had a nice surprise on my morning rounds today. :-)
It was just standing there, watching me! I got some video as I went past. I’m still in the process of uploading it, but the embedded link below should work once that’s done.
Grouse, I’ve noticed, are not the brightest birds. I headed into town later today and, on the way home, saw a bird on the side of the road. As I passed it, I could see it was a grouse. It wasn’t until then that it just turned around. Checking my mirror, I saw it still just standing there on the road, completely unperturbed by a vehicle going past so closely!
After my rounds, I stayed out to start mowing before things got too hot.
I finished some 5 hours later! Heat or no heat, I didn’t want to stop until it was done.
Then it was a trip to the dump, then into town. One of the things I picked up was marking paint.
I got tired of looking for the rocks I have to mow around! Four rocks and the remains of a tree stump in the yard, plus another rock in the “driveway” I mow to the back gate.
The girls, meanwhile, took care of the house. Not just the cleaning and stuff inside (including cleaning kitten eyes), but they are doing the eaves, as well. The last time they tried to do the eaves, they got attacked by horse flies, and today was the first chance to get up there again. As I write this, my younger daughter is up on the roof, cleaning the second floor eaves, too.
My daughters are awesome!
The day is not quite done. I have the last coat of paint on the gate to do (thanks to the girls flipping it for me while I mowed), and I want to get it done tonight. That way, by tomorrow evening, both sides of the gate can finally be moved out of the garage, and we can start parking the van in there again! :-D
Back to work I go!
The Re-Farmer
