Another Awesome Day!

Today has been another absolutely lovely. We've been over at the property, Mark and a lad who came to help us, Corey, started to block in the compost heap, and planted 2 cherry trees. My other fruit trees didn't arrive until after we had left the house, so Jel brought them over to us and Mark got them planted. The line-up thus far is a 4-in-1 apple, 2 3-in-1 pears, 2 cherry trees, and a 4-in-1 Western Fruit Cocktail tree. The 2-in-1 cherry and the 4-in-1 pluot tree didn't come in the shipment so I've messaged them and will follow up with a call on Monday. The 2 rows are about 20 feet apart and the trees are planted 10 feet apart, so our orchard will be fairly compact (they call it basically a "postage stamp orchard") which makes it easier to pick the fruit later on.

Mark plans to add more blocks around the beginning compost heap. We have to take more over. Thus far, we have grass cuttings, paper recycleables and a couple of bags of veggie peelinge et.al. that we've taken over from here. We are supposed to get a good rain overnight and tomorrow, and I'm hoping that will start the paper products breaking down. I am looking at a couple of options for some animal manure to add to it. I want to end up with a really rich mixture.

He also cleared a bit of area around the creek near the front of the property so that I have a more open view of it. It's really nice to be able to look at it more closely now that a lot of the overgrowth has been cut back (or Wintered away).

The pond rake for cutting and clearing the cat tails struggled, I guess we just have so many and they are so thick. It was neat watching them send like dust bunnies up in the air as they were pulled. It reminded me of blowing dandelion puffballs.

I also met our new neighbour, he hasn't moved in yet either. He and his fiance get married next month and will then be moving in afterwards. They bought the house in December, as we'd bought the land in November, so we are both new and just "visiting" our places at the mo. He has a cute little black dog who took an immediate liking to me but manages to get through numerous places in the fence to get over onto our property, so we discussed him and Mark doing some better fencing once he gets moved in. We also will need to introduce Brunel and Lightning so that if she does come over when they are there, thatw e don't end up with a dogfight, and they see her as a friend. I can then always take her back home.

Corey is a really nice young man, and he is planning on stopping over at different times to track the wild hogs and hopefully load his freezer by doing so, and sharing some of the meat with us. I told him he mustn't hurt my deer though, as I want to enjoy their visits once we are over there more often.

It's nice to have things falling into place. God is so good, and I don't deserve this but I am very thankful for my blessings.