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Over the past week we have started getting ready for spring. We have the garden all tilled up and some 'taters planted. The berry bushes (blackberry and raspberry) are all pruned and cleaned out. The rose bushes have been pruned and cleaned up. All of the small fruit trees (peach and cherry) are pruned and shaped. I had a peach and 3 cherry that didn't make it through the winter, actually, they didn't make it through the summer last year. They were crappy quality trees to begin with. We have started feeding the catfish in the pond. I even got to start mowing yesterday. Most people I know dread mowing, I look forward to it.
I usually split the mowing up into a couple of days or it would take me a whole day to get it done.
Today I have to hang some new lights in the shed and then start trimming up some of the bigger fruit trees. There are lots of suckers in a few of them and some broken branches in a couple. It's time to break out the big ladder.
In the next couple of weeks I'm planning to take out a couple of trees. We have a tree line between us and the neighbor, but all of the trees are on my property. Most of the trees are Hedge and Thorny Locust. We are replacing them with trees that are less of a pain in the ass. The Thorny Locust are just awful. If you have never seen them, I'll try to get some pictures. The thorns are hard on any kind of tire. All of the yard equipment has green slime in the tires to seal up any punctures.
The Hedge trees are beautiful. They are a dang nice shade tree until the start dropping all those damn hedge apples. If hedge apples weren't absolutely useless I wouldn't mind them so much. And for those that think they keep spiders out of the house, it's not true. I see big ass nasty spider underneath Hedge Trees all the time.
Later this spring, I'm planning to put in a bunch more fruit trees. Another couple of cherry, a couple of peach and four or five apples. On the apples, I'm thinking a few Honeycrisp and a couple of either Gala or a type of green apple. I saw some Honeycrisp yesterday at Home Depot, but they were all dwarf trees. I want the full sized trees.
I also have to work on one of the mowers today. Something is out of whack with the steering, not sure exactly what's going on. I'm anxious to get the new lights hung in the shed. It's time to start working on the hot rod trucks. Joe Texan is picking up his "new" truck next week and we will be doing all the work on it here at my place. I haven't seen it yet, but it is a 1970 Chevy. I sent him a list of what I would do, life/safety stuff first, tires, brakes, fluids, etc. Then the fancier stuff a little later.
On my own stuff, I have to adjust the brakes on the Blazer and get it inspected. There are lots of other things that I want to do, but that will get it on the road and headed to a cruise night or two. The 1968 truck is another story. I'm thinking a new front wiring harness and some other electrical issues are in order. Some of the lights and blinkers don't work. The guy I bought it from had replaced the steering column with a newer one and now the blinkers and backup lights don't work. It shouldn't be too bad, I just have to get into it. It also needs all the fluids changed, valve cover gaskets, plugs, wires, etc.
I guess I better get to work. Later.