We were supposed to have a visitor early this morning, so I didn't stay in the house. I decided to clean up around the yard a little bit. So I picked up puppy poo. Then I raked the River Willow branches from one sidewalk and put them in a burn pile. No visitor, yet. Then I got out the ladder and sawed off the dead stuff from the baby willow tree. It looks really nice now, but it's kind of bald. Like I say...dead is dead and it has to be removed. Then I trimmed off the dead branches from two Rose Mallow plants. No visitor, yet. Then I trimmed off a lot of the vines from the Confederate Jasmine plant. They were growing up into the weeping willow tree so I hacked them off. Still no visitor. So I scrubbed out the bird bath really good and filled it with water. Then I climbed the big willow and cut out all of the dead branches from there. There were a lot of large branches to cut. I carry pruners in one back pocket and a collapsible saw in another when I climb. I didn't get up as high as I'd like to have, but it will do for now. No visitor. I pulled some weeds from the flower garden. We have some kind of nasty weed here that has a tuber underground that looks like a white radish. It's a scourge! After that, I took a break and watched a little TV. Visitor came and left. We ate. I got lazy. End of day.
How was your day? Take care.
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Sunday, March 17, 2013
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Eywa
I recently saw the movie Avatar. I LOVED it! The person who wrote that must've been on some kind of trip to imagine something like that. I think the animator was on the same trip. I understand it was made for 3-D viewing, but the effects were really wonderful on HD. What imagination!
My hubby moved one of our outside lights from near the house to our back part of the driveway. We needed to get a little bit of light back there so we can see to turn around in the dark. This is situated next to my beautiful willow tree. Remember that tree from a few posts ago?
Where am I going with this one, you say?
As I was letting the dogs out for their final break before we go night-night, I noticed the willow glowing from the light that was just moved. It was gracefully swaying with a slight breeze and I instantly thought 'Eywa'. I have my own version of a real, live Eywa in my yard! It is so cool to see this effect at night. I've been trying to get a pic of it to put here, but it is very hard to do. If I do get one, I'll surely post it.
Take care. I hope you have a really cool day!
My hubby moved one of our outside lights from near the house to our back part of the driveway. We needed to get a little bit of light back there so we can see to turn around in the dark. This is situated next to my beautiful willow tree. Remember that tree from a few posts ago?
Where am I going with this one, you say?
As I was letting the dogs out for their final break before we go night-night, I noticed the willow glowing from the light that was just moved. It was gracefully swaying with a slight breeze and I instantly thought 'Eywa'. I have my own version of a real, live Eywa in my yard! It is so cool to see this effect at night. I've been trying to get a pic of it to put here, but it is very hard to do. If I do get one, I'll surely post it.
Take care. I hope you have a really cool day!
Monday, March 4, 2013
No More Weeping, My Willow.
The little green haze on our willow tree is a very welcome sight! This is a sure sign spring is almost here.
This is my favorite tree to hide in. Every year I climb into the tree and prune out all of the dead branches. Dead is dead and it has to come out sometime. It may as well be at my hand...or, should I say possibly broken neck. LOL! I'm over 50 and you still can't keep me out of the tree. I love climbing trees!!!
Sometimes, when it is in full leaf, I go up there to trim and hubby doesn't see me. He couldn't if he tried because it's so dense with leaves. I watch him go from here to there to the neighbor's house and back. It is too funny, but I let him go. Then I'll call him from up in the tree. 'Where are you?' he says. 'I'm up here!' I say. He just shakes his head and lets me do my thing. This tree, in the pic, is about 30' high. I only go as high as I can before the branches sway. As it gets older, I'll go up higher!
We planted the tree about 8 or 9 years ago. This spot got a lot of water and you can see the tree loves it here. We bought a companion for it about 5 years ago and the smaller tree is still small. It grew a little bit, but not like this one. If you look closely, I have a small white bird feeder in it. I build these out of scrap wood and place them in a lot of my trees. I have about 7 around the yard. I have another one that was given to me and one I bought. I'll be making more feeders soon because these ones are starting to rot a bit. The birds don't care. They've been asking for seed and I've been procrastinating about filling the feeders. I'll make a note to do it tomorrow.
That's it for today. Take care. Climb safely! ; )
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Sometimes, when it is in full leaf, I go up there to trim and hubby doesn't see me. He couldn't if he tried because it's so dense with leaves. I watch him go from here to there to the neighbor's house and back. It is too funny, but I let him go. Then I'll call him from up in the tree. 'Where are you?' he says. 'I'm up here!' I say. He just shakes his head and lets me do my thing. This tree, in the pic, is about 30' high. I only go as high as I can before the branches sway. As it gets older, I'll go up higher!
We planted the tree about 8 or 9 years ago. This spot got a lot of water and you can see the tree loves it here. We bought a companion for it about 5 years ago and the smaller tree is still small. It grew a little bit, but not like this one. If you look closely, I have a small white bird feeder in it. I build these out of scrap wood and place them in a lot of my trees. I have about 7 around the yard. I have another one that was given to me and one I bought. I'll be making more feeders soon because these ones are starting to rot a bit. The birds don't care. They've been asking for seed and I've been procrastinating about filling the feeders. I'll make a note to do it tomorrow.
That's it for today. Take care. Climb safely! ; )
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