Summer Days in May

We went from rainy days to a week of 80 degree temperatures.  It is so lovely working outside in the sunshine...well, in the morning and evening, heat of the day can be a little too much if you aren't used to a 20 degree temperature increase.  I even bought a straw hat to keep the sun of my face and neck.  I am feeling official now!


We only have a few more weeks that we can do backyard burning so we are trying to get all the piles of wooden fence posts, lumber, tree limbs, blackberries, cardboard, and various other miles of piles of burnables.  Unfortunately, nothing is really worth saving so goodby it goes!


Interestingly, the house Southeast of us did Spring field burning.  I always marked the end of summer by the giant plumes of smoke mid to end of August.  I am very interested to see what fields are burned around us.  I actually love field burning...the smoke clouds are mesmerizing.  

My goal for the weekend was to get the animal food area cleaned out.  I hauled hoses, wood, fencing, and a ton of other miscellaneous items out of this section of the barn and managed to find a ton of garbage cans to use as feed storage.  I rake up the old hay and by the time I was finished, the areas was fairly need and tidy...for a barn. 

Before...

After...


Just to illustrate the kind of stuff on the property....these are actual cleaned (washed and dried) sticks from ice cream bars...hundreds of them, all neat and tidy in this bag.  I also found seed packets packaged when I was 3 years old.  The previous owners didn't seem to throw anything away.  I appreciate their resourcefulness but oh my, there is a lot to sort through.  We just ordered our 4th dumpster!


The children were thrilled to find salamanders under the wood piles. 

Sweet baby Robins

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