2
April

Spring Raking and Pruning

Today was a good one for working outside. I have so much yard work to do, but it is hard to get motivated sometimes. Especially with all the rain we’ve been having. The wet leaves and mud are not conducive ro yard work, and the very few days we’ve had with no rain are days that need to be spent doing other things.

I had an extra hour this morning, so I grabbed my jacket and rake and headed out. The front yard didn’t need much attention – just a few odd burr balls and small twigs. But the back yard is a mess of burr balls, a layer of leaves and lots of twigs and branches that have fallen over the winter months.

Some of the bushes need pruning but I can’t find my pruning shears anywhere. I wasted a good 20 minutes looking through boxes in the garage for those things. Looks like I need a quick trip to Lowe’s to buy another pair of pruning shears and maybe a couple bags of weed and feed for the lawn.

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23
March

Mud Season

The good people up North, like in Maine and New Hampshire, are used to a wet Spring. In fact they brag about having 5 seasons up there, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and Mud season.

We have had so much rain here that we are having a Mud Season. I haven’t heard anyone else call it that – maybe I should drop a note to the weatherman on TV and suggest it? I want credit for the phrase, of course. And let’s hope it is over soon so we can move forward to a proper Spring.

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5
January

No Snow Yet

Here we are into January and we have not had “winter” yet. There has not been any snow and it is not cold – knock on wood. Not just here in Tennessee – but most of the country is having unusually warm temperatures. This morning I saw a news report that a lot of ski resorts are having trouble keeping snow on the slopes – it is not cold enough for man made snow. I find this a little troubling. Not that I can do anything about it, but I worry that the lack of snow will mean a drought for many places this spring.

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13
September

More Cows

There is a field just down the road from here that used to have a huge herd of cows in it. Then all of a sudden about 4 years ago the cows all disappeared. I didn’t know if the farmer died, or sold them all, or what?

Turns out the farmer sold the land to a developer and thought he had to get the cows off that piece of land. So he moved them to another field in the back where you can’t see them from the road. He still has the cows. And for some reason, there were cows back in the old field today when I drove by. Now what’s up with that?

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8
August

Air Traffic

Even though I live near the big airport, I don’t feel like I live in the city at all. I live in a quiet neighborhood, except for the occasional days of air traffic that comes across the house and trees. Some days I don’t hear the planes at all – they must be using a different runway on those days. But some days it seems like every 5 minutes there’s another jet taking off and coming right over top of my house.

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