Lots to do

Spring & Lots to Do

The weather was nice Sunday 3/21, I think it hit 61 here, the yard is in pretty good shape overall other than the mud, Rose deadheaded all of the plants in the Fall so all the beds look in good shape.

Daffodils are 4" out of the ground now.

We seem to be a month ahead of where we were last year the end of March.

Got the yard tractor out, very helpful with the trailer picking up debris and moving stuff around. One flat tire, and a near dead battery, got it started after a shot of starter fluid it ran good for about a minuter then unceremoniously died, WTH, fuel maybe?, I filled it up, she took another shot of starter fluid and it started again.  Drove it up to the back yard, I had lifted the hood on the engine, Rose noticed a bunch of grass sticking out around the spark plugs, we get mice building nests in the craziest of places.  Removed the hood completely, engine cover, fuel pump, and side panels. I found a headlight wire chewed nearly through, taped it off with electrical tape, replaced the fuel filter, and a vacuum hose line, it seems to run better now.

Took a walk up the street, picking up trash, bottles and cans as I went, I filled a grocery bag full with the garbage. Slobs... What is wrong with people?

The walkway all dug out amazing how quickly it gets buried under dirt and grass again.
 

Monday was nice too. Rose finished edging the walkway, I shoveled the dirt up we got a trailer load. 

Yard is still a mud pit.

Rose took to attacking the yard with the leaf blower Thursday 3/25, the yard is really looking great now.

Almost all our snow is gone at this point, still a big pile from the plow at the flower bed at the tail end of the driveway.

 

Rose and I went for a walk our onto Everett Dam Thursday evening it was 74 degrees here, Nice... Still have Ice covering Everett Lake.

More and more seedlings are coming up.

Oh, and we have earthworms up in the yard...

 

Stay safe out there...

 

It's SPRING!

It's SPRING!

 

Finally Spring,  that's all I have to say...

 

Daffs are 3" high along the house foundation they'll be easy unless we get some bad weather that'll set them back.

Year	Spring Equinox (Northern Hemisphere)
2021	Saturday, March 20, at 5:37 A.M. EDT

Pussy-willows are out, our poplars out by the road have catkins that are already past or close to it, hay fever anyone... 

We didn't get any of the predicted 2-4" of winter this week, I'm good...

We're about to move the Deer feeder back to the field circle, (where we feed them in the warmer months.) snow's all gone out in the field, elsewhere in the yard not so much. It takes three people to move it, maybe I can get a grand to stop by to help.

We planted Pepper seeds last weekend in trays upstairs, we're all set up in the mini greenhouse Jarrod got us a couple years back, it'll help hold the heat and moisture. The greenhouse has a heat mat with thermostat, LED lights that have a built in 3-6-12 hr timer,  the seeds should be up out of the ground this week. Funny, I went up to get a couple pics to post of our setup for you, and low and behold we have seedlings already...  Rose planted Tomatoes, we'll grow two+ (10 if I have my way) kinds of heirloom Tomatoes, and she planted Broccoli, Kale too this week all of those are germinating in 10-21 days. (Hah, 3 days for us...) 

I find the seed packet germination times @ 10-21 days seems like a long time to me, if I were depending on these 10-21 days in it's a long time to find out your crop has failed...  We'll grow them out in the house and transplant them to the garden at the end of May, 1st of June when it's safe.

                       

This is our setup, don't laugh it's working.

The Broccoli is up and growing already, the LED lights are on now.

Our garden is going to expand by 30% or so this year, we'll add more panels on the right side and expand into where the path is.

                                                                       The Garden

I may add some bio-char to the garden this year, there's plenty of downed trees and more I still need to take more standing trees out.  I saw a few articles online, I liked this article from The Survival Gardener on the history, how to do it, etc.

 

Rose & Zeb,    Zeb's getting his hugs.  He likes hugs!

 

 

Stay safe out there...

Frigid weather drops in

The Frigid Winter weather drops in

The winds howled overnight, it's Saturday before the DST spring event tomorrow morning.

Earlier in the week...

Monday into Tuesday the wicked winds came in, it was 7 degrees here on Monday blowing at 30-50 mph, no real issues here at the homestead, the winds continued throughout the night rattling the windows on this old house. New Boston and some surrounding towns had a lot of trees and wires down.  Surprised us actually that we kept power throughout the windstorm.

Rose heard some big tree(s) come down, we're not sure yet just where, We'll take a better look once some of this ice melts.  

The whole place is a skating rink now,  dangerous as all hell to walk anywhere here right now.

Being the first week in March it's time to get the LED grow-lights and cart setup to start seeds in the next couple of weeks.

 

COVID-19 HAIR IS GONE!  

Like Covid, I'm tired of it!

Before                                                 After

  

 

 The boys and their new PATS jackets!  Grammy and Grandpa got them for their birthdays.

 

 

We went to Delaware to visit Roses sister Carol, she is doing better by the day.

Rose and her Niece Laura in Ocean City it was very windy the day we went, great to see though, truly Hampton beach on steroids miles and miles of real boardwalk and shops.

Stay Safe!