Chestnut trees are coming down!

April 28, 2010 ~ Chestnut trees are on their way down! Finally, we can walk around the yard bare footed and not get pricked with those nasty seed pods :0) 

yuppers, it's a mess but once we get the wood all stacked and the scraps burnt, we can get the yard rake out and rake up all those seed pods with the awful pricklies on them, bare feet time!

got the fire started and it's time to burn some scrap tree branches

glad I got those field stone around the fire pit!

and lookie there, a hammock, just waiting patiently for us to get our chores done so we can relax in it. next on the list to chop down is that nasty ole bean tree blocking the lilac up there on the hillside, it's another very messy tree, I want tons of trees on my property, however I want trees that will be producing fruit that I can process and can and EAT! apples, cherries, peaches, plums and such . . .

and talking about things to eat, we love to mushroom hunt, which we did this morning before we started with the tree cutting, found some nice morel mushrooms back behind our property ~ yea buddy!

just look at those yummy shroomies!

Found some mushrooms

We love to hunt mushrooms, have been doing it with my family since before I started in school, my dad once went hunting before he took the family and had sneaked some into trees, telling us kids, now remember to look up in the trees too, yeah whatever, I was like 5, I found them, in the tree

now I know better HA

anyway we love hunting, just out enjoying a nice walk and my hubby actually found the best spot this time around, usually its me

we are in opposite areas of the woods when my cell phone goes off, it's hubby texting me to meet him by the big apple tree, off I go and look what he found!

they were everywhere, YUMMO let's have some for supper tonight!

I have to admit, this is a first, usually I get the treasures, he won this time

whatever mouth!

Rocks for around pond, window painting & new strip beds

Finally we are getting some things done around here!

Remember I said when I had time I was going to go out back in the pasture field and haul home some field stone? Well I did, have now gotten enough for a fire pit, around some trees for flower beds and I built up the field stone around my pond :)

adding rocks around some trees, will fill in with a little more soil and put some hosta around there, maybe some black eyed susans too

and remember the fish pond, I have a bed full of field stone now to choose from so finished the pond rocks, and I love it, the old hand pump was my grandmothers, years ago it was in her kitchen!!

I love how it is turning out, we also ripped out those privet hedges along the house, gosh now you can see even more how steep that area is

now to concentrate on getting the window trim painted, going from brown to off white

I painted up as high as I could reach, need to get the step ladder out, but hard on that slope!

yes, I think I like the off white trim on these old windows, eventually I will have some new windows put in, ones that can open from the inside to clean, these are hard to clean!!

Scooter says "howdy"

a great picture of my nephew taken back in my grandmother's woods, he's up on top of the rocks with a view of grandma's house in the background, AWESOME!

since we are at grandma's house, if you look above where my explorer is, up there you can see the rocks my nephew's photo was taken from and  I am digging up some peony and hosta that I planted for grandma many, many years ago, since Grandma has passed, I am moving the plants down to our new home

There's my daughter, age 15, not quite ready for her permit for a few months, but let's get some practice in while we can, she did a good job, didn't plow the tree or hit the house LOL

now back at the homestead, I have 2 new flowerbed strips, the front row has now some peonies planted

and the other side end, showing the new planting strip, with some hosta from grandma's house, hubby has the ladder up there, I had said I wanted to do away with those chestnut trees because they are soo very messy, and I think it's almost time for them to come down, when hubbs gets the ladder out, I know the chainsaw is next . . .