We Had Rain!

Yesterday was a lazy day for us, a day of rest for my poor hubby who has been doing all manner of things over on the property over recent weeks. We had rain, an awesome excuse to just stay home and wind down, knowing all my new trees and plants were getting a wonderful soaking without us having to take water over in gallon jugs because we don't yet have water there yet. That should be getting remedied soon, but can't until we get an end to spasmodic rain as Lee's trucks weigh more than last week's concrete trucks did.

Hubby and I did some upkeep on my gardenia cuttings, I changed water in some, picked off dead leaves and re-rooting-powdered others. I don't think they've like the Winter much, even being inside. I also potted the honeysuckle vine that had finally rooted pretty well. Eventually I want to have honeysuckle, moonflower and morning glory vines along all the chain link perimeter fences over at the property. Smell sweet and look pretty.

Today, we went back over and hubby mowed some of 2 different areas. One is not our land, although the fencing makes it appear it is. Mark is trying to locate the marker studs that define that property as the new neighbour's fenceline is square around his home and back yard, and actually should be wider onto "our" driveway, and then 10-15 feet deeper past their pole barn and across to the perimeter, as can be seen by the yellow line on the aerial pic.

They bought the house in December, after we bought the land in November. The former owners of both should have taken care of this a few years ago before selling the land to the person we bought it from, but hopefully between Mark and Josiah (the young lad who owns the house now) we can get it figured out and fenced correctly.

On the pic above, the privacy tree row that we planted is level from the pole barn and going down towards the creek, and my mini orchard is being set up to the left of where it says the 8.97 acres. The barn's concrete slab is in the area where the words "home pad" are, with the covered porch area facing the road and privacy trees.

Progress is slow and steady, but we are "gettin' 'er done".

Tomorrow's project is for him to put new brakes on my car, and then putting a new wheel on the lawnmower. Wednesday we'll be back over there to water trees, take more plants over plus our rainwater barrels and table, so that we can set them up near the orchard ready to hook up the flat soaker hoses for watering in future.

We have to paint the new beehive also. We'll have 2 this year, and we get our bees April 11th. We missed the cutoff for the first shipment. We are well prepared though with everything for them.