It’s a nicer day with some sun, and not a whole lot of rain. So I took a little time inbetween walks and wood splitting to gather up about 20-30 pieces and truck them over to my friends yard in preparation for Saturday night’s festivities. Should be a real banger if the weather holds up. Might be a tad cramped if we can’t also use the outdoor space they have at their disposal due to heavy rains, or below seasonal temperatures. Can’t tell one way or the other how it’s going to go, so no point worrying about it.
I did get through the entirety of Wood Pile #2 in October, and got about half way into Wood Pile #1 before some local tree guys came and added new logs to the pile, that I will need to break down and process for next year, or later on this fall. I’d love to see the junk piles get taken away and dumped in the tree lines so that I have more space to manoeuvre when up by the stone cottage. Feels a little claustrophobic with everything that’s going on there. Oh well. Beggars can’t be choosers.
It is now Thursday. I found some sapling trunk guards to stop the local fauna from munching on the bark of my brand new flora. They seem to be doing ok twenty four hours in. It drizzled off and on all day which seems like a good thing. Plus it was warm yesterday, hovered around eleven degrees celsius, so not going to dry the trees out at all, or bake them under a violent sun. I have high hopes that all four will take.
If the wind picks up I may very well need to stake them to make sure they grow upwards and not laterally. Some of the apple & peach trees we planted at the farm have gone cockeyed, so I’d like to avoid that. They did take though, so I guess if it means they will live and produce fruit, I’m ok with it.
Tomorrow is May first, and get your goggles ready because the pace is about to pick up quite a bit. There’s going to be track & field try outs, practices, the local event, an area event, then on to provincials if anybody should get that far. We have tournaments, and recitals we are building up to. Belt testing, and then the big close out parties for all the extra curiculars. Opening the pool and swimming at night when the weather is nice. Grass cutting, doing fancy flower bulbs, planting crops at the farm, followed by watering lines of veggies in all of the gardens. Monitoring the pumpkins. Harvesting the 4,500 garlic cloves. Bike rides, park visits, Canada’s Wonderland will officially open this weekend. Throw in the cottage and all that entails, and our trip to see my side of the family in BC, and it’s going to be a bullet train speed ride from now until Labour Day weekend. Woosh!
None of that includes work, and grocery shopping, summer programming, and pop up events with friends. The calendar fills up fast. I wouldn’t mind putting a round or two of golf in there, and a handful of driving range visits too, if we can manage our time well enough.
I got back into watching Chernobyl yesterday. What a great show. Just savage. Very tense. Riveting. Not for the faint of heart, or weak of stomach. Be forewarned.
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