Monthly Archives: June 2020

A couple of weeks ago the fellow who owns a plot of land next to us was up there visiting it. When he was chatting with Andy he said Andy was looking good for someone his age. When Andy told … Continue reading →

The peony plants look happy, but no sign of blossoms. Andy and Kaitlin talked about it during our weekly phone call last night, and they wondered if the soil ph was wrong for them. Maybe they needed more acidic soil? … Continue reading →

Once he adjusted the choke, Andy didn’t have any trouble starting the cutter yesterday. He used it for about an hour in the morning, another hour in the afternoon. He says he can cut 10 times as much with the … Continue reading →

On her Facebook page Catherine wrote, As soon as my “head starts to jumble” it is so soothing to just flick the switch and get in the zone. In Catherine’s case it’s doing art, in mine it’s solving puzzles/problems. That’s … Continue reading →

After Andy’s futile round trips to Albuquerque to get the high-altitude jet installed, I wrote to Makita yesterday afternoon: Our brush cutter came with this warning: [Copy of their warning] We drove the 200-mile round trip to the closest service … Continue reading →

Andy drove down to Albuquerque to get the brush cutter this morning. After having lunch here he drove up to the land to start trying it out. He carefully followed the instructions for putting in the oil and gas and … Continue reading →

Andy, Beate, and Tim finished clearing the dead trees from the defensible space: There are more pictures on Flickr. The challenge now is to keep the weeds down to avoid it from looking like this, or worse: That’s why Andy … Continue reading →

Andy has been busy working on clearing the defensible space, so he hasn’t had much time for the greenhouse lately. He says the beets are just sitting there now, not growing, and the corn is past, of course. But we … Continue reading →

Yesterday Tim, Andy, and Beate removed the last three standing big trees in the defensible space. Tim cut them down, Andy sawed them up, and Beate removed the pieces to a hopefully safe distance. The area looks a bit barren … Continue reading →

The recent post about our little trees reminded me of this 2016 post: Do you remember the five-foot-high fence that Andy built around the Limber pine to prevent the deer and elk from destroying more of the bark?   It … Continue reading →