Can you find the Buckeye Tree?
Oooooh, you know how great it feels to finally get outside in the spring to do yard work? And, there’s always that one day when you wake up and have to gingerly move your body to see what damage has been wrought? Yeah…yesterday was my day. My hands hurt. My hip hurt where I sat on the cement for too long fiddling with the Husqvarna. The tendons on the front of my neck even hurt from holding my head off the ground while laying under the tractor. Still, it was a satisfying ache.
We didn’t get much done on the tractor yesterday. We had to go to town for another doctor’s appointment. Are you like us? We go through a period where the appointments are reasonably spread apart, then all of a sudden…we’re there all the time! When a round trip to town is at the very least sixty miles, you have to add all your stops for shopping, banking, haircuts, whatever to that because you don’t want to make the trip very often. So, by the time you get back home it’s time for supper and the news and the day is pretty much shot.
The first daisy!
I did get the new deck belt put on and switched out three of the five little wheels on the mower deck. We have a 30’x40’ building full to the rafters with anything you might need for such jobs as these. But, do you think we could find a couple of washers for those wheels? Nooooo! Finally, Mr. FixIt pulled a small tray out a tool box and sure enough, there were the washers we needed. That building is like Lowe’s after a tornado…you know you’ve got just about everything for just about every job. The thing is…can you find it?
Multiflora Rose…it is a scourge in the Appalachia’s. Early settlers planted them as “living fences” and they took over everything. They are impossible to get rid of and their brambles are sharp and intertwined.
Mr. FixIt still has to change the oil on the tractor. Or maybe I’ll learn how to do that, too! We should get everything put back together by afternoon when we go out to eat to celebrate the youngest WV granddaughter’s graduation from WVU. And tomorrow? Back to mowing. Our next big project is buying a new storm door and installing it. I know I can’t do THAT job by myself. Those doors are heavy and if I dropped it and shattered the glass, I’d feel awful!
Top Row: Buttercup, Milkweed, Common Starwort Bottom Row: Our 1st “Early Girl” Tomato, Fleabane, Milkweed (always excited when I see these because I pray for monarchs, but just to the right is a single stem of Garlic Mustard…a highly invasive weed. I need to get after them before they seed!)
It’s always something, isn’t it? I’d rather be busy than not. Idle hands are the devil’s workshop! I did have a chance to do a walkabout last evening during the golden hour and snapped some pics for you. Enjoy!
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“She carefully watches everything in her household and suffers nothing from laziness.” Proverbs 31:27 NLT
***Gratitude Journal***
Today, I am grateful for good healthcare providers who watch out for our health. May it always be so, Lord.