Wonderful, wonderful dry air!   No one takes pictures of me, but you will have to take my word for it that I have been busy taking advantage of the great weather!

A Sunday afternoon and Tom and I worked on burning all the limbs from last falls storm.  Tommy had helped me drag them to the backyard when he was living here but they sat all winter. This is where we want to clear out and put up a picnic shelter and enjoy the woods. So Tom and I had a burning day and then we sat back there and enjoyed the fire for a while.  Just he and I.  The original coop has to come down as well as the original shed and it will be great.
Starting the work week, I went ahead and re-plowed  the pasture.  Tom had done it once, but I went back and did it diagonally to really get that clay broken up.   I'm sure we will be at it again soon before raking it.  Really looks bad since it rained, but believe it or not, it is an improvement!

Jimmied the fencing for now until Tom gets some new wood.
  I don't know if the horses kicked it or not but it fell.  There is electric fencing on the one side so maybe they got zapped a few times and kicked at it.  I just tied it up for now.

I took apart all the garden from last year.

All the wooden frames are gone, the fence is down, and the tires stacked along the tree line. I am not sure what I will be doing for a garden, but I have to think quick if we are going to have one.  I fixed some of the fencing and netting along the blueberries.  It looks like they made it so far.  I see buds! Tom says he will help me with building a new cage around them as the wood Tommy and I used rotted away and there isn't any protection from grazers!
Worked at pulling weeds around the strawberries.  Hopefully we will get enough for jelly this year.

Tired of seeing the poplar that fell during a storm, I decided to fire up the chainsaw.

  I had dragged the tree out of the road a few months back but now it needed to go.  Surprisingly enough the saw started right up and I had it cut and stacked in no time.   I decided it was a nice enough day to go ahead and start picking up all the bigger stuff under the pines too.  It looked so bad through there.  Now I have three piles waiting for the tractor and wagon to haul. 
While I had the saw going I went ahead and cut up some of the wood we stacked last fall.   I knew that it would be nice to use that instead of the coal every morning.  By late morning it was to warm to have a fire anyway.
Working my way to the back yard I stopped and pruned the wild raspberries and pulled a few weeds in the water well garden.   I had taken a lot of ash from the stove and put it down trying to kill off the weeds and poison ivy.  I hope to eventually get it full of flowers around the old dug well that is out there.  I love the stone around it but it needs to be a little higher.

Tom made the remark about the old barn and how the west wall was looking bad and all the stuff piled against it so I started on that.   There were old windows that the frames literally fell off when I went to pick them up, so I just tossed them on the burn pile and stacked the glass separate for him to get rid off.   Problem now being, where the windows leaning, the wall rotted.  So I had to find a piece of scrap wood to put up to block some of the big hole.   Just can't wait for that to come down too!
Pool is open!

Mostly cleaned out and just about ready to go.   A little warmer weather and a little more water so we can put the hose up where it belongs and not along the flooring. One last thing that before I was done for the day was to clear up all the debris and burnable stuff around the chicken coops and the barn.  Still gray looking and drab, but at least not cluttered! 
Ready for chick's and pigs this year!