Annual Fight Between Winter and Spring Has Begun

The annual fight between winter and spring has begun.  Yesterday the temps were in the 70s and today a cold front was knocking on the door resulting in cold, cloudy, drippy weather.  Since we missed last weekend, we were determined to be at the farm today.

We first headed up to the house to see if anything had been done.  It looked like the electrician had finished his work stuffing the wires into their little blue boxes and wiring for "multi media."  Wiring for multi media sounds much more complicated than it actually is, as all he did was run wiring for the satellite dish to the various rooms.  I am hoping to avoid all the exterior wires that happen if you don't do it at the time of construction.

Also wanted to see septic system area:

buried septic tank



buried drain field

another view of drain field





The weather was not really pleasant but we didn't want to head home so we decided to do some work removing vines from our good oak trees.

 This is what it looked like when we started.

 After an hour and a half cutting and pulling out vines and little trash trees...

Finally after 2 hours, we were about half finished.  We will be spending more time on this one tree and then will be off to "free" the others.  Of course, we still have mesquite to cut and move to brush piles.  The neighbors have also left lots of downed dead trees and vines which we need to move to the brush piles.  I know there are lots of other projects yet to be done; we'll eventually hit them all and maybe finish some of them.