MAY DAY

MAY DAY

May Day is an official holiday in 66 countries, not the US though, it is rarely recognized in the country where it began, the United States of America.

 

We got some rain, and some wicked winds on Friday 4/30, we were driving through town last night, Rose thought one gust was going to lift the back of the RAV4 it hit the car so hard.  It's a good thing we didn't put the Cabana up yet, we'll wait till Mothers day, that has historically been safe, it's been an odd year thus far weather wise.

We had the grands over for several days helping us out here on the farm.

They worked with us on the Wild Rose bushes holding back the wild rose canes with steel tined rakes so I could cut the main trunks with a chainsaw. These gnarly wild roses that have overtaken the field road to the point that you have to drive the tractor down the bank into a ditch to escape the thorny branches that reach out to grab you as you attempt to skirt by.  Some of them are a good 25+ feet across, the canes are lined with a hooked thorn, I swear if you ever fell into one of the bushes you'd never get out they hold so tenaciously.  Rose would help me and the boys with branches that would hook me in multiple places so badly that I couldn't move without driving the thorns deeper.

We moved the Wise Ol' Owl sculpture to the front yard bed.  It's a bit gangly and takes two preferably three people to relocate it. He looks good there in his new spot.

Jason and I replaced the downstairs toilet, he's a big help.

Jason helped us open up the camper, he and Rose took the tarp off the camper and opened the slide.  Squirrel or chipmunk got into the camper, Rose was in there and found pink insulation hanging out of the A/C.  I'll have to open the A/C to remove the stuff.  We caught a mouse in there in a snap trap, I'd removed one or two earlier this year in traps.

Spring has sprung here on the farm, all of the Daffs have opened at once. Rose brings in several at a time and has them on the sill in the Kitchen, or the dining room table.

Dads crazy Plum tree (crazy because it sends up volunteer suckers everywhere along it's roots), If anyone wants one we've usually got plenty ;-).   below it is just about to bloom, the south side has just started opening it is the sweetest smelling tree on the farm, you can smell it half way across the yard. The sweet smell is only surpassed by the Honeysuckles later this summer.  Truly a stunning tree. Due to the drought we didn't get any plums last year, but we got a bunch in previous years.

 

Our apple trees buds are just starting to open

 

Lilacs are happy this year, both the ones we planted and the old wild ones blossoms are starting to open up.

 

Remember the Rhubarb that was barely poking up out of the ground a couple weeks ago, it's now putting up stalks, I want to try something different this year with it, maybe stewed rhubarb over ice cream, yum.

Today is working on cars day, I need to replace the Tucson battery before it strands us somewhere.  It died once this winter, had to throw it on the battery charger for several hours before it would start up.

Garden plants up under the lights are growing like weeds, we may need to plant them out early.  Just about time to get the garden turned over, which means I'll have to change the belt and get the tiller going, etc.

The ticks are still bad, I need to get the tick stuff down, but timing has been wrong, I need to put it down just before a rain preferably.

What are the odds.  We're at Walmart in Hooksett, NH, I need a new battery and to have the TPMS sensors replaced in my tires.  So they had the parts but couldn't fit us in today Saturday, they said we can do it Sunday around 2PM, so the technician is writing our name down on the schedule and there's Jarrod Sanborn listed on the schedule for something at 1PM just before us. WTH are the odds on that?  See you Sunday Jarrod!