Opening Date For Our Gardens

 May 20th  

By Appointment

5/16/2023

With last nights thunder storm and winds

we are now having to reclean up the yard 

again.  We will not open the gardens until

this huge mess is cleaned up.  It's not fair

for you to see this mess from neighboring 

trees.  As you can see from the above 

photos we keep our yard clean but this is

now a total mess.

I spent most of my day cleaning up!   I'm

only half done and some of the mess will

have to behand cleaned.  There are maple

seeds all over!

 You'll have to excuse the Maple Seeds, I

tried to get them picked up.

8th Week Of Spam

Time to get this to stop!  After two

chats with the antivirus folks we pay

for and their great support it appears

as of  5/11/2023--1:17PM the two

Technology folks that were spamming 

me has stopped!!  I stand corrected

and know they are also here to read.

My counts here have been sky high!

Hundreds of spams a day for why??

Still getting a few spams of which

I block after recording their IP address

and send off to the spam department so

they can handle it!  

Both returned today with 11 spam emails

so far.  Sent a few off to the spam dept.

I personally want to thank our antivirus

company, especially Alvin A for their

help!

I still will turn off the computer if not

being used and when I see this happen.

Or the flash of the white page.

Trillium

Are just breath taking this time

of year! I just love them.

 

Wisteria Starting to Open!

I just love to watch these bud and 

the chains drop.  The two are just

starting and I'll try to get more

photos.  We decided to dig them

up in Jan and did some serious

cutting as the wind was pushing

them over.   I can now walk 

behind them and they seem 

to love being moved.  

 

The heat has taken a tole on one of our

awesome trees.  Here is before photo

Here is an after the heat.  I have been watering

to keep them from drying out.

Time To Clean The Rainbarrels

 I started yesterday to clean all (18)

the rainbarrels  that we have here.

One job that is a task that I put off

as long as I can but it needs to be

done due to the trees around us.

Take a good look at the mess I

have to deal with.

They all used to be like this but with

the west trees removed I'm in hopes

they won't be so bad doing the west 

and south barrels.  The north nine

are cleaned!  

I did the south 5 and the 2 west ones 

they were worse than the north ones

and yes it's pine across the house!

 

The only one left is the one in the SE corner of 

the front yard.  It sits up to high for me to pull

down so it will wait until I have help.   I am

now only cleaning them once a year.   I used

to clean them twice a year and could do them

all in one day.  Guess I'm getting old and once

a year will have to work. 

This evening my husband pulled the last front

rainbarrel!  They are now all done and not bad

for 2 days of work!!

Now to paint the deck or clean the windows.

90s Degree Weather

 They are saying 90 degree weather

by this weekend!  Way to hot for this

time of year and those spring bloomers

will fry if you don't water!

Friday 92 degrees

It was 104 degrees in the greenhouse!!

Saturday 93 degrees

With high winds and Yes the yard

is trashed!!

Sunday  91degrees high but

the low will be in the 60s

We have had dry hot winds also

and Monday will be clean up the 

yard day due to it's trashed again.

Will need to do it before what they

say we might have thunder storms.

5/15/2023

Up early to get the household chores

done so I can get out and clean up the

yard.  Needles all over the place and

DH picked up a few times due to I

couldn't be outside.  The little I was

out I ended up with bloody nose.

So I know I'll have more cleaning

up the mess.

As you can see the maple seeds are still

dropping.

6/16/2023

Around 5pm 5/15 a thunder storm rolled in 

and all the cleanup done yesterday is now

totally undone. The trees to the north and

east just dumped with the winds.  So I will 

be back out recleaning up the needles and

maple seeds.   We went from 90 degrees

to 78 in just minutes once the thunder storm

hit.  What a mess the yard is now!

Got in late this evening as it was a long 

day in the garden cleaning up.  I was cleaning

up Sable area and heard a truck pull in the

circle.  Okay, keep cleaning and finally 

finish the gravel area where Sable potties.

Turn around and there are tree trimmer

next door to the east.  I can't believe it

as we got no notification they were coming

out.  After seeing their weights in the yard

I politely stated keep it on the other side

of the fence, Please!!   I then texted DH at

work and asked if they let him know?  

Nope was his answer and I told him,  he

better come home.  The last time someone

trimmed those trees we had a huge mess

and the folks were so rude.   You want to 

know why I don't talk to my neighbors, here

is a good example!!  The last three times

trees in adjacent yards were trimmed it 

took me months to get it all up.  Check 

back to some of the other posts.   DH comes

in later and stated they couldn't believe the

mess they were dealing with!  Excuse me

the other owner before them did nothing

but hire a farmer to do the work.  Just wait

until they find the other messes they did

prior to selling that piece of junk!   All the

older photos will show you how unkept

that place was and the fact they never 

cleaned up after their animals!  Besides

when the kids had the house they totally

trashed the place and there are other thing

we can tell you about that house.  Garbage, 

rats, deer hanging from the tree and yes,

the beautiful toilets!!  Let alone all the drugs~

Just love how the she has to drive the circle

before she leaves.  Really good neighbors!!

It tells me they didn't research the house

before they bought it.  Plus over paid by

$150,000 over it's valued.  DYI 

projects without permits and let's talk

the landscape and the movement of dirt

by a farmer that had no permits.  Let alone

they change the ownership 4 times since the

orginial purchase. 

Now you know why I won't talk to any of

them and why we have cameras!

All they did was storm damage, nothing 

on our side at all.  Hate to say this but the

last crew after our fence and greenhouse

was damaged, removed a few trees 

that had died.  So you think these are

going to be stable??   What can one 

say??  They are now top heavy and

will topple over!!  I still see a lot of

dead limbs.  Plus planted close to their

septic tank drain fields.