Dixie Chicks

[hennible]

All my birds are "rescues" lol from people who didn't want chickens anymore, so with all of the mutts I have no clue about breed... My best looking birds are all mutts...

 

[vehve]

Whew. I'm beat.

First we had to switch around our raised beds a bit.




You might think they're filled with rocks, but this is actually just frozen soil.






Here you can see me trying to break up the ice in a very stylish ensemble.


Then we started digging up the foundation. The soil is horrible, every time you swing the shovel you hit a rock about 2 inches in. Very slow going. This is how far we got today.


I also filmed a short video of Hilma today.

 

[hennible]

I love pry bars, nice pry bar Felix and good work.
Think I should move to Finland looks like your a month ahead weather wise...

 

[vehve]

Sam, yeah, second year in a row. The three previous years it took a month or two longer to get to the same state though. But I don't have anything against an early spring.

That pry bar is great. I think it's Karin's grandfathers old one. It can take one heck of a beating, I've used it to move 100kg rocks.

 

[vehve]

We were supposed to have sunshine from 12 forward. Instead it was cloud all day until at 5 when the clouds started clearing away. And an hour later the sun went down. How I've managed to burn my face anyway, I really don't know.

 

[hennible]

I got some wicked sunburns tree planting on overcast days when it was cold... I don't know, refraction?

 

[Amberjem]

Whew. I'm beat.

First we had to switch around our raised beds a bit.




You might think they're filled with rocks, but this is actually just frozen soil.






Here you can see me trying to break up the ice in a very stylish ensemble.


Then we started digging up the foundation. The soil is horrible, every time you swing the shovel you hit a rock about 2 inches in. Very slow going. This is how far we got today.


I also filmed a short video of Hilma today.

 

[Amberjem]

UV's no sun dont notice heat which generally reminds you to cover up or protect skin,...no heat just cloud you just have skin cooking the whole time

 

[perchie.girl]

Sam, yeah, second year in a row. The three previous years it took a month or two longer to get to the same state though. But I don't have anything against an early spring.

That pry bar is great. I think it's Karin's grandfathers old one. It can take one heck of a beating, I've used it to move 100kg rocks.

I have one LOVE it Its great for digging out this stuff Wolf Cholla.


you use the pry-bar to break it up and off pieces or big branches and a pitch fork to put it on a wagon and walk it over to the cactus pile then use the pitch fork to push it off the wagon. once you get down to the main part of the cactus It pries out of the ground pretty easily. then you got to pull all the runner roots out they run in rays out from the base of the cactus following water and giving it structural support. Those are shallow.... There is one tap root but once its food source disappears it dies off.

Cholla is also called jumping cactus and I had five or six of these Volks wagon sized plants to remove from my horse's corral.... the reason its called jumping cactus is it readily gives up a chunk of itself to anything that passes by. A form of propigating itself.

A now rescued Coyote Pup.



My dog got really good at stop drop and carefully pluck. I only had to rescue her about two or three times before she learned the technique.

The big Cholla above has shorter needles thank goodness. There are a good twenty different species.

The other main plant I had to remove was this

Chamise


Highly flamable loaded with natural oils so its very drought tolerant. But when they break off as I know my horse would have done their base forms spikes that come out of the ground... So they had to go too. Came out just like the cactus... Drove the bar down the midlle of the spikes and broke the root up from the top down...

ONLY spot on my property that has been cleared. AND it had evidence that it had been cleared once before because Cholla and Chamise were the only two plant species on about a quarter acre of very flat land.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

I got some wicked sunburns tree planting on overcast days when it was cold... I don't know, refraction?

We tell vacationers to put sunscreen on on cloudy days because UV goes right through the clouds. Worst sunburns I have gotten on cool days that are overcast. Cool days here are around 60-70 degrees.... Out by the coast it stays cooler than just one or two miles inland.

So if there is snow of course that reflects up.... Same goes for sand so dont think a hat is going to protect you.

deb