My yard

Well the storms over the weekend wrecked havoc on my yard and trees. I bought some tools from Sherrill Tree so we could go out and clean up the branches that are down and to trim the trees in preparation for the coming winter. I usually do it twice a year. Once in the spring, in time for the spring and summer storms and again in the fall. I kind of dropped the ball this year, because I didn’t do it earlier in the year. I know that I should have but I spaced it.

Our weather was mild this past spring which was why I forgot about it. It will be okay though. Now that it is being done, I will only have to have do it once this year. Next spring I will make sure to get it done when I usually do. I certainly don’t want to have any accidents happen like my next door neighbors. They had a really large branch come down on their porch roof and had to spend a lot of money fixing it. It would have been cheaper for them to have the trees trimmed then to have to deal with fixing the house too.

Kids fighting already this morning

*sigh*

I guess it is going to be one of those days. They are already at each others throats and since I STILL have no coffee ( no I never made it to the store for a coffee pot), today is really not the day for them to be acting like fools. I think it is time to send them all out of doors and run off some energy. It is supposed to thunderstorm in a little while though. We were supposed to go to the creek and have some fun, but I don’t see that happening. Although it hasn’t started raining yet, I am sure as soon as we were to get to the creek it would start. I need another alternative to keep these kids occupied and out of each others way.

 

MOVIE DAY ! That’s it ! I will start playing movies and let them eat popcorn and such. Nothing sweet, (they don’t need the sugar) and that might keep them occupied for a while.

Joy joy – Nonstop Rain

Oh the joys of rain non stop. I checked the weather and we are going to have rain for another two days at least. On Tuesday it will be a rain snow mix according to MSN. Such dreary weather is depressing. I can’t wait for spring, but I won’t be looking forward to the storms we get at that time. They have become more violent over the years with a lot of tornadoes. I am scared to death of those things. Anyway, before I scare myself silly,  I will find something else to talk about.

Winterizing the trees

The time has come to winterize the trees here around the house. Sometimes we get really bad ice storms and need to cut back branches that could possibly break and fall on the house or cars. We picked up some arborist supplies a while back for just this occasion. Sometimes, it is necessary to do this in the spring too.

We get really bad spring storms, with high level, straight line winds. They can knock a full grown tree over in a split second. We tend to be very careful about how tall we allow the trees to grow right next to the house, because of it.

Storms

Wow, last night was amazing with the storms. I all I could hear all night was constant thunder. There was some lightening, but not as much as you would have thought with all the thunder. We have needed the rain so badly and mother nature is definitely making up for the loss now. I don’t think we will be under a burn ban anymore after this week. Not that we have anything to burn, but sometimes we do like a nice bon-fire. Anyway, I need to go outside soon and see if there is anything that needs picked up in the yard. Talk to you people later.