Yard and New Project

The new landscaping is looking beautiful.
Its been so dry though, that we have to water.

The oakleaf azalea has large stately looking flowers.

Doesn't this look nice and inviting?

The first day lilies were the traditional yellow and were very pretty.
But then these came out in this pinky-salmon color!  Beautiful.

I thought these azalea were supposed to be either pink or blue, but our has kind of a mix.  The pink is more pronounced in person.

We had a deep purple lilac at the end of the porch which we had decided to cut down because it was looking spindly.  We left the stump and one branch so it wouldn't look so bare.  All these new shoots have grown up out of the stump.  We are going to leave them and see what happens.

And then we've started our next project.  Doing much needed repairs to the garage.  We are replacing 3 windows with a smaller size.  We have the first taken out.  Now we will need to re-frame.  The old framing though, is 3" studs on 24" centers.  We've decided we will have to build it all out to the dimensions of current faming lumber, otherwise we would have wavy walls between the new and the old dimensions.  Should not be difficult though.

I'll let you know how it goes.

Saturday, May 26, 2012

 

Charley and Jackie were up at 6:30 to head to the Farmers’ Market in Wilmore.

Bob, John and I got up at 6:30 so we could drive to Danville to the rental place to pick up the excavator.  First we had breakfast at “Old McDonald’s.”  

I was upstairs looking out the bedroom window when they unloaded the excavator.  In the distance, you see the area where they are growing vegetables for the market.  Watermelon, cucumbers, tomatoes, squash, pumpkin.  Lots of good stuff.

 

Bob & Charley spent all afternoon getting started on digging the trench.  John had a turn behind the controls also.

John had a hard afternoon.

 

 

In the middle of the garden, a bird has made a nest.

 

 

It was HOT!

Friday, May 25, 2012

Picture driving this lane at night.  The sky is so dark you can see all the stars.  The lights are shining from the house like a Thomas Kinkade painting.  We just can't wait to get "home."

We left work at noon on Friday.  We arrived at the farm at bedtime.  We talked to John on the phone and told him we were running late because we were stuck in traffic up in Chicago.  The next morning, John wanted to know about us being stuck in traffic.  He was picturing us being stuck in the mud.

We have 2 major projects for the week.  One is to dig a trench from the house out to the barn to run electric lines and water line to a new hydrant, and a water line out the field to a new hydrant for the truck garden.

Then we need to build line fence.  There is about 2 ½ miles of line fence and none existing when we bought the land.

We have an early start in the morning so need to get to bed quickly.