Relative Something

After day two of our three-day-weekend, we are detecting an increased level of tiredness, but feeling good about our little steps of progress. Still, the grass mowing continues to be delayed. In hind sight, we probably should have put in a bigger effort toward that task yesterday, but after Cyndie gave a shot at mowing down by the road, and got herself stuck several times, she put it away and moved on to other interests. Now we are facing a higher likelihood of rain today, based on forecasts.

I was successful in getting out on the bike, but didn’t ride for more than an hour, because the sky was sprinkling just enough rain to make things wet. It was a pleasant surprise to find Cyndie had mowed, because I rode past several other places where folks were out doing the same thing. It appears that many others are in a similar predicament to us, battling the extreme wetness along the road side where grass is getting long.

Of the many projects available to us, we settled on starting to move a pile of firewood that was dumped at the bottom of the back hill last fall, and then working to recover the edge of woods next to the labyrinth. Before I headed out, I replaced the flushing lever on our toilet. Some projects automatically rise to the top of the priority list.

When the fence crew pulled out the old barbed wire last fall, they cleared out some trees and turned up the soil, pulling stumps, to a degree that exceeded our expectations. Their effort left the area looking rather abused, with large chunks of dirt scattered around holes and divots. But they did provide us with quite a pile of cut logs from the trees they took down.

I wanted to get the logs up the hill near the spot where I would like to have a wood shed, which is also the place where I expect we will be doing much of the splitting. Elysa and Anne dug into that project.

Then, while Cyndie ran an errand for equipment and supplies, we raked down the area next to the labyrinth as best as we could, and covered it with leaves, sticks and grass, in attempt to return the strip to a more natural transition from field to woods again. That is the kind of work I like doing, because there is such an immediate visual reward for the effort. Even though we didn’t do much work on the labyrinth, cleaning up the area around it makes it all look a million times better.

Today, we hope to put a new pump Cyndie bought, into the pond to get the water circulating. Since it is a water project, we figure it will be something we can do, even if it is raining.