More trimming

63º here in Clarinda, IA with a stiff 20 mph wind out of the northwest at 4:00 pm on Sunday.  Rode the trikes a mile around the hospital parking lots a bit ago and came back in.  Had on  long pants, long-sleeved shirts and sweatshirts with hoods pulled up over our helmets and wearing cotton gloves--not exactly biking weather.  The wind really bothered.  We got a shower late last evening here and I dumped a half-inch of water from the rain gauge this morning.

Well, a year ago I had failed the stress tests for heart condition and was waiting until the 22nd of May to go to Lincoln to have stints put in the clogged arteries.  That didn't work out as was worse than they had thought and lined up the June 4th date for open-heart surgery.  Feel a lots better this year than a year ago!

Last fall and this spring our tenant lined up tiling for the east end of our 80 acres. The new owners to the south had dug a deep ditch along our two lines as well as one that went east and southeast to the river to drain their ground and let us put tile into it.

This photo to the left was taken with high telephoto lens and shows the tile coming in maybe 200 yards to the west.  The photo above shows closer tile maybe 20 yards from the east side.

Was disappointment that there was still a pond and frogs were croaking and birds on it.  Maybe the tile hasn't had time (a few months since installed) to lower the water table itself. There was a rain a week ago.

After all the work a few days ago removing the mulberry tree went at it again trimming all the lower branches from the rest of the trees on the place.  Suffering from "lopper arms" - cut into small pieces to make mulch for the bank behind the hedge.

I put the pile above around the pine bush I got from Colorado some 5 years ago.  Photo at right shows the two new Juliet tomato plants we got at Henkiville Greenhouse Thursday.  The ones I planted April 11th and brought home bit the dust -- these look much better and are probably older, anyway.

These two photos were taken yesterday in our Mobile Home Park in La Feria -- to the southwest corner.  They had some 3" of rain that day.  Even though the ground is super dry, it came so fast it wasn't all soaked in, at least right away.

Only a few days ago I was taking flowers off this bush for the table.  How quickly they fade.

 

The hedge along the entire back of the lot (other than the railroad cut) really got wild, since I didn't trim it at all last year.  Have been working on it a little bit at a time most every day.  The lower line shown in this photo at right is about even with the top of my head, so I have to reach quite high and over, or through, the bush to get it cut.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( A trucker came into a truck stop cafe and placed his order. He said, "I want three flat tires, a pair of headlights and a pair of running boards." The brand new waitress, not wanting to appear stupid, went to the kitchen and said to the cook, "This guy out there just ordered three flat tires, a pair of headlights and a pair of running Boards. What does he think this place is, an auto parts store?"  "No," the cook said, "Three flat tires mean three pancakes, a pair of headlights is two eggs sunny side up, and running boards are 2 slices of crisp bacon."  "Oh, OK!" said the waitress. She thought about it for a moment and then spooned up a bowl of beans and gave it to the trucker.  He asked, "What are the beans for?"  She replied, "I thought while you were waiting for the flat tires, headlights and running boards, you might as well gas up!"
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Husband:  "I changed a light bulb today."

Wife:  "That's it?  I did the laundry, vacuumed the house, washed windows, cooked three meals, and the list goes on and on ... and you changed a single light bulb?" 
Husband:  "Yep, that's what I did today.  Watch this; I even filmed myself doing it."

Click here to watch:  Changing a Light Bulb

Later, Lynn