Most of the week was spent in our continual effort to clean up and organize our "outside".
First on the agenda was to finish cleaning up the area just south of the canopy where, over the last twenty years or so, "stuff" was "put" because..... There were old tractor parts, lengths of pipe, miscellaneous bits of wood, and old fence posts that were hurriedly pulled up from the hydrangea field where we needed to build the greenhouses...and to put the solar panels.
Fence posts - some bent in places (which Dad straightened with the help of the limbs forming a crotch in one of the apple trees). There were also lots of wads of thin wire wrapped around the ends of the posts which needed to be untangled.
Now they are nicely stacked - ready for their next job which might possibly be when I get a couple of goats to eat bushes that I want to destroy.
The area to the south of the canopy with NOTHING there but gravel.
Here, along the western fence line, are all the big tools nicely lined up and placed on pallets which have concrete blocks as supports.
Malcolm and Dad moved the old cast iron wood stove from under a fig tree where it had stood sentinel for uncountable years. Now it is somewhere else, and I can't see it from my window.
And now there is a clean clear view
Bev decided to wage war on ivy that is taking over some trees around her house Dad went over to help her.
Janie might be looking for more trees to free from the ivy...
We finished cleaning out between the greenhouses AND re-positioning all of the shade cloth and securing the edges with new balling twine. It was an awful job! The only good thing is that it wasn't raining, and the job is done. Dad also sprayed weeds on all edges of the greenhouses and in between them too. We have covenanted to be proactive and to always keep the weeds down in these
areas.
Dad dug out the old post holding up the boysenberries. I am so proud of him because it is another awful job that nobody will do for you...or can do much to help you.
We started another project in #1 and #2, which Dad reluctantly is helping me with. We never really finished those greenhouses because we didn't need them and we had already begun to grow in the other houses and there just wasn't time. When we built them, Eugene Kuntz and I really dug too deeply which caused a big gap between the ground and the bottom board. Since I want to level the ground in #1 and #2 and then rake the soil to make a smooth and level surface, we need to fill the gaps underneath the bottom boards.
We're using the old cedar boards from the demolished deck to do this. Measure - cut - set in place, - measured and cut again - fit into place.
I went to Seattle with Vannessah on Wednesday. That afternoon, after the school bus dropped off our grandchildren, Abby and Jude held Bunny School for our colony of rabbits.
On Saturday Jessica texted and asked if Ryan and the kids could come over and help us do something for a couple of ours.....the house cleaners were at her house, and she wanted to mow. Hmmmmm. ....what to do with a bunch of kids. Ryan (he is not a kid, for sure) did a bunch of weed whacking in overgrown flower beds, and I had the kids washing base boards (Logan), cleaning all of the kitchen cupboards (Tyler), dusting, cleaning porch and stairs (Abby), vacuuming (Jude) and cleaning doors and window frames (Camille). You know, they were good sports about all of it and did a good job - at least the house was a lot cleaner after they left!
Tyler purposely made an ugly face pretending not to be cooperative.
We went to Columbia with Warren because he needed some shirts and more Beaver clothing...And Dad needed new Beaver plush jackets. Holland did not need a new jacket but got one anyway because she is so cute and the color is BYU blue.
Dad babysat Friday night while Bev and I and Jessica and others went to see the movie, "Midway". It was a great movie!
Here's Holland and Caramel while he was there
Saturday night we went to an OC 2 Family History activity. We really only went to see what they were doing and to see how we could incorporate those findings into our own ward's FH work. The food was good and we shared it with old friends
I finally have the fabric for Holland and the new baby's quilt and have begun to work on the BYU themed quilt.
We still have six maple trees that are colorful. There are two varieties along the driveway, and fortunately these six, which are more beautiful than the others, are close to the house where we can see them all the time.
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