In case you are still wallowing in Winter's leftovers...
I wanted to give you hope.
We had a glorious day yesterday... not yet as warm as we would love it,
but still, not cold, not rainy, not snowy.
And since we cannot be picky, we will just call it glorious!
The sun shone and the colors brightened.
We've been having some trees cut down...
pine trees that are dead and threatening to fall on structures.
We also had a few black walnut trees next to the pasture taken down.
Black walnut is toxic to horses.
The sheep were quite curious about this new addition in the pig yard.
You might remember that we have a 250 year old pine tree by the barn.
It is mammoth and seemingly healthy, despite a lightening strike a few years back.
Fifty yards from Sampson, out in the front pasture, lived his sister tree...
a much smaller version.
Sadly, this tree was half dead and needed to be cut down as well.
Yesterday, I was out in the front pasture cleaning up manure.
Hubbs was fixing fences,
and the dogs were busy playing.
As I worked around the felled pine tree,
an idea started to percolate in my tiny brain.
I realized that the trunk of this tree was way too big for us to cut...
and it seemed a waste to just have it dropped into the woods to rot.
Why not turn it into a fairy garden??
I asked the tree cutters to cut off the bottom of the tree.
When I told them what I had planned to do with it...
they offered to hollow-out one side so that I could plant it.
They moved it close to the barn...
where I discovered termites crawling out of the wood.
Needless to say, we moved it to another location, far from the barn.
I'll show you the progress with this little garden over the coming weeks.
While I was working on my log,
the turkeys were outside the barn showing off.
One of the photos that I took of them shows perfectly
how their inner eyelid works...
open...
closed...
Pretty cool, huh?
Comments
It will make a charming fairy garden setting.
“Cool Shades” on that massive turkey!
Can hardly wait to follow along as you build the fairy garden.
It does look glorious there. We are enjoying a beautiful spring day-at least for today!