Sometimes I think it would be nice to have more property ... but after a long workday such as hubby and I had today ... our 1.9 acres is plenty. Most of the landscape is natural. Our homestead is carved out of a nice little forest spot. Being natural .. does not mean less work. We had to clear brush (noxious weeds) today along the driveway. Our neighbor has the start of a big burn pile .. so we heaped some of the debris on his pile. Last year he said it was fine with him ... so we just added to his heap this year. The rest of the weeds piled up will get burned Tues. and Wed. if the nice weather holds out. It's grueling work ... but now the property is starting to look spruced up. Tomorrow we'll be at it again cleaning up another section. I gave our front flower beds a good once over trimming dead growth from last season. Soon the lawn will need to be aerated and de-thatched; for this job, I'll hire someone with the right equipment. Our sprinkler system will be recharged at the end of the month.
The veggie gardens are 3/4 finished with all of the prep work. Hubby shoveled a third truckload of compost yesterday. This should be enough to give some good balance to our otherwise clay soil. The topsoil was removed in this particular area when our lot was graded prior to building our home.
I'm checking into making a small-medium sized adobe type oven for the backyard. Always something to investigate ... but the idea of having an outside oven for bread baking is stirring in my brain;)
