Some Outside Work Accomplished

Today is Friday and again it is cold and windy.  We had quite a bit of rain yesterday and last night.  Not sure how much since my rain gauge has a crack in it.  I will be throwing it away and getting a new one.  I did get the birdfeeders filled.  There was not a seed left in any of them.  So, needless to say, there are a bunch of them out there now.

Kevin is home today and he plans to trim the trees where necessary.  Patrick is supposed to bring Kevin’s auger back today so he can plant the fruit trees that arrived the other day.  I received an email informing us that our pecan trees have shipped.  Now we are waiting on the Franklin trees.  Once they arrive, that accounts for all the trees we ordered. 

I have two beautiful cardinals in my backyard.  I have read that if a cardinal comes to visit it means someone from heaven is visiting.  I am going to assume it is Jim and Mom.  The cardinal was Mom’s favorite bird so it has to be her.

Kevin got the trees trimmed.  I took a couple of pictures of the lemon trees he planted last weekend.  We walked around and checked the trees and all of them look healthy.  In fact, some of them are getting buds.  I just hope we don’t get a freeze. 

Today is Saturday and it is a beautiful day.  I have the windows open.  Kevin planted the apple, pear and peach trees this morning and now he is getting ready to leave for his bee class. I would have taken pictures but all you would see are tall sticks with twigs for branches.  None of them have leaves yet. We will have a regular orchard in our back yard. The pecan trees arrived this morning and we marked the back yard where he plans to plant them.  He will plant them tomorrow.  I am working on my curtains today.  I hope to get to them to the point where I will be hemming them.

I am done for today.  The curtains are all cut out and pinned to be hemmed. 

Another beautiful day.  Sunny and 70.  My kind of weather.  Kevin planted the pecan trees this morning.  They are in my back yard.  The orchard is in his back yard.  Now we are waiting on the Franklin trees which will be planted along the property line of my back yard between my house and Ricky’s house. 

Sunday was a really bad day for me.  Spent most of the day laying on the couch watching television and/or reading.  Feeling somewhat better today.  My blood pressure was low yesterday morning and even lower this morning.  Not sure what is going on.  Just came in from filling the birdfeeders.  While out there I noticed a bird nest on my satellite dish.  Since there were no eggs in it (I assume it is from last year) I took it down.

This afternoon I finished weeding the area next to my deck steps.  I also checked several trees.  The tulip poplar, oak, Bradford pear and dawn redwood are starting to get buds. I also noticed that one of the hydrangea bushes are getting leaf buds.  The other one (which we moved last year when Kevin added the deck steps) does not look good.  Not sure it is going to make it.  I am slowly getting some outside work accomplished.