My Sunday Walk...

did not take me far today.  I was armed with clippers, a hammer and a camera.  I was headed to the  barn to do some poop scooping and hauling that to add to the garden.  Didn't get there...

I worked on replacing the support in the center of the root cellar.  After many years the main post that supports the floor of the above smoke house have begun to rot. To prevent that floor from sagging, thus causing the root cellar ceiling to sag, I had to fix this post...done.

The cellar is no longer used to store root crops and canned goods, only empty fruit jars waiting to be needed.  Yes, that is a dirt floor.

On to the water garden.  The Golden Rod stems has out preformed themselves and were an eye sore...too big for the garden, so out with those and the old money plants.  Note the pecan floating amid the Parrot Grass.  Picked up fallen pecan limbs, picked pecans out of the water garden and clipped invading honey suckle and trees planted by birds.  Now, I am still in the yard!!!

Trimmed the Sweet Williams away from the cellar door and clipped and cleared Andrew's path to the bus. My piles of clippings and limbs are getting quite large by now.

The pear tree is blooming for the second time this year.

  Already harvested one crop of pears.

The poke berries shined in the sun's light.

Ten  AM and I am tired!

Did not make it out of the yard.

Saturday Work

The horses enjoyed the green grass while Bev and I tried to do some yard.  The water garden had wintered well and many things were growing already.

Bev did some raking and I worked  around the water garden, removing the winter's leaves or should I say, trying to remove the winter's leaves.

Magic wandered by toward the green grass.  The horses were loving the day and so were we.  The temps were perfect.

Hubby and Andrew cultivated the garden.  They hauled poop to the pasture and redistributed it for fertilizer.

The water garden is looking a little better but many leaves to go.  I think a leaf blower would have made easy work of this.  I had to handpick the leaves out of the rocks. 

Note the black thing floating.  It was covered with snail eggs so I had to leave it in.  I want plenty of snails to feed my fish and help keep the pond clean.  I also ran into many frog eggs and tadpoles.  Life is going to be plentiful in my little water garden this year.

Remember how beautiful it was last year, it will be again and very soon.  I guess we all have to shed the uglies after the winter we have had.

It has been raining since last night and still raining.  I am glad it is not snow.  Many of you have been hit with late winter storms and I am surely thankful the snow went around us this time.

We had great plans for today.  More spreading of manure, I was headed to the barn to work but as you can see from this picture, not much equipment will be moving today.

This is from my screen porch,

doesn't bode well for outside work.