How to keep busy while Social Distancing during this inconvenient pandemic? A good thing to do would be to get involved in serious land clearing. Since the weather report showed a whole week of no rain (amazing), we decided this was our moment to finish clearing all the brush off at Goodin Acres. We worked every day this week - not the whole day, perhaps, but at least 4-5 hours. Ethan helped us again - one day for sure and maybe a second.
There had been a lot of previously fallen trees that we'd never cleaned, and they became overgrown with blackberries. We simply did not quit until it was all cleaned up.
This photo looks like a giant sea creature but it is actually the ivy covered remains of a tree that had rotted away. We could not pull it or lift it....so we cut it into pieces and took it to the fire.
We pulled a bunch of trunks out of blackberry thickets and from over the edge of the field. Fortunately Ethan was there to help.
And look at it now!!
Because I must hate ivy more than Dad does, I took upon myself the cutting ivy off of ALL the trees at Goodin Acres.
This tree I named the Aasgard Maple (in honor Aasgard Pass in The Enchantments) because it was such a big tree.
One big cedar tree with a bizillion little ants created a problem for me. I didn't name it because I used bad words.
This tree was tricky because the ivy vines were huge, and it was growing on the edge of a cliff. I had to get a ladder to climb down to the base of the tree.
I get super tired whacking with the hatchet while standing on a steep slope, so I rest.
..and gaze off into the "gorge'"
There are 3-4 trees left that still need to have the ivy removed -next week. And, we can see the tops of fence posts that, presumably, mark the property boundary - next week I'll mark then with surveyors tape.
Ahhhh...Easter Sunday was this weekend. I thought it'd be fun, in addition to an Easter Egg Hunt, to have an Easter Rabbit Hunt. I gathered up my big statuary rabbits, divided them into two groups and left early in the morning to hide them. It was a hit. The kids are experienced egg hunters, so their talents were put to good use with the rabbits.
Early one morning when the rising sun was shining breathtaking beams, I took this photo of the Wild Cherry trees that grow at the edge of our woods. I swear I'd never seen them before, but Dad scoffed at that. Later we agreed that, perhaps, they had never before been so magnificent.
And for the next week........
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