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Posted : 3/14/2025 11:39:43 PM

Well, I woke to snow this morning. The neighbor has been in the Hospital (auto accident) for a week and then in the Convalescent hospital for the past few weeks. I've been feeding her horses and dogs in the mean time.

We've also been under the gun to get her place cleaned up because the insurance company has been looking for an excuse to cancel her insurance, Trees are trimmed, landscaping in garden trimmed and removed, porch cleared of cardboard boxes (all the way to the ceiling) and we have cleared the driveway in front of the front steps. Most of this accomplished by her general handyman who does work for her. I cleared the cardboard. Including out of the shop and the uncle filled it up with boxes again (facepalm)! Didn't have a lot of time for more. Jmebear isn't able to do more than care for her own animals, so she can't really take up the neighbor's horses and dogs for now. So, I'm kinda in a short spot here. I need to go to Fawn Lodge and am getting held up. This snow isn't helping things. The neighbor's driveway to the hay barn is badly eroded and muddy. The truck's 4WD isn't working at present and there is a real risk of my getting stuck. I hope she gets home soon. I can't leave till she does.

Good news is that the snow seems to be melting away. So that's good. Hopefully I can get out of here soon.

I've also been working on the front of Jmebear's house. Moved the garden fence another four feet further away from the house into the driveway. New gates, new steps onto the front porch with a cover extension over the steps, etc... This will enable me to plant more veggies out there and some flowers too. I'm also assembling a greenhouse (of sorts, very utilitarian) for starting things and a place for shade gardening during the summer. Gotta get the seeds started for Spring and early summer planting. Not too sure where I'm gonna do that, but I have to get on it. My time is running out for early spring starts and later starts as well. I'm looking forward to Hollyhocks this year.

I hope everyone around here has a great week.

DaneHaven

Posted : 3/15/2025 1:45:37 PM

Stude you have more work to do than I.

Good of you to be so helpful to your neighbor.

A star in your crown for sure.

Crazy winds here.

And so dry, dirt is just blowing around.

We need rain badly for pasture grass to start.

Happy weekend all.

studeclunker

Posted : 3/15/2025 9:08:34 PM

No stars in any crowns here. Just one's duty to their neighbor.

I can sympathise with the dirt blowing around. We have issues with dirt from the driveway, what with all the neighbors driving by, here in Oak Run. Fawn Lodge was originally built as a log deck back in the nineteenth century. The property had a number of Miner's cabins on it till the fire in '36 burnt the whole town down. It was rocked and graveled to be used as a truck yard in the forties and the house built in the late fifties to be finally occupied in '60. Over the intervening sixty-odd years it has built up a healthy layer of fine dirt that blows about in the wind all summer long. So yeah, dirt problems there too.

I suppose with that runway and everything else, you would have the same issues. One of the blessings of living in the semi-arid environments west of the Mississippi.

The grass has actually been doing much better than usual this year. But then we have had very few weeks with the temps below freezing at night. The horses have been thankfully keeping the grass and weeds down to where it's like a Golf-course green. We have an area surrounding the house that the Fire services around here love. Relatively little fuel and the grass to a minimum. At least these horses and ponies are good for something <wink, wink>!

Well, I have to get off the bum and off to work. Hope everyone has a great weekend and blessed Sunday.