We had a rocky start to the weekend. It rained on Thursday afternoon and Erik had ridden his motorcycle up to the mall to see Meghan. He got caught in the rain on the way home and as he started to slow down to make the turn into our subdivision – the bike went down. He is ok except for some scrapes and the bike is rideable but doesn’t look nearly as pretty as it once did:
After he pushed it home (thankfully we only live a few feet from the entrance) and dried it all off he was able to start it again and he thinks its ok. He had just replaced a mirror that he lost when it fell while parked on the left side and now the mirror on the right side is gone! (This after he replaced the mirror on the left side of his truck and the rear view mirror on the inside fell down last week! I told him it was the universe telling him to stop worrying about the past and look to the future – I don’t know, sounded like sage advice! LOL )
So we got him patched up and then we headed down to the property for the weekend. We got a lot of rain down there too so the wet weather creeks were all running on the land. We spent at least an hour at one creek trying to figure out how to get the mule across without flooding the engine. First we tried building a rock bridge but that wasn’t going to work so we damed up one side and cleared debris out of the other so that the water would flow out of the spot where we needed to cross.
Later when we took Bill back to show him our feat of civil engineering, we discovered this clearing that I had seen on the Google Map but had never found on our land:
And just a few feet away:
And this huge boulder – it was at least 4 feet high!
Erik playing in the creek (taken from the top of the boulder)
We did quite a bit of work this weekend. We had planned to take some cedar trees down up by the house but with the rain the ground was too soft in the area that they were in so we decided to clear out the brush and trees around the house instead. It looks so much better now.
This week Bill is going to try to get our seed planted so that they can be ready for transplant outside in about a month. Even though the temperatures have been in the 70’s all week and we have had a very warm winter I don’t trust that it won’t frost once more before April 15 (our usual last frost date.) He also needs to get the cold frame built outside for the raised bed. We have some cement blocks that my sister gave us that we are going to use for the base and an old storm door for the top – the door is 8 feet tall! So we should have a nice raised bed and cold frame. I’m not sure if it is cool enough for lettuce which is what we were planning for the cold frame but I may start some in my house (if I can find a window with sun and that I can keep the cats out of!)
