72 last year

Aarene asked for an update on our newly gained property - the wooded strip that separates our house form our pasture.

I'm long behind in updates. Sorry.

Here is something from last year, that shows our progress at that early stage, wow.  I'm blown away by how crappy it looks in my eyes today.

I might have blogged that before.

If so I'll quickly get an update to where the most work was done in one 5 hour period with the professionals taking down 30 trees. 

Update: omgosh when I posted this old video I thought that was something, you have to see it today! I said, it looks like "hope" and sure enough, it's whipped back into shape now, with that wild "Weidedrache" (willow?) getting off the Rhododendron which has flourished this year for the first time. Bellis cherishes in eating from the 2 willows that keep trying to reclaim our "garden." 

It is not what you'd call a civilized garden now, but it is trim and the blackberries are submitting to weekly poisoning. That apparently must go on, cuz it's been almost a freaking year and they keep sprouting babies. DIE! The two apple trees are loaded with enormous apples, for this region. We don't need any more, we have 4 in the back yard. But it is nice to have huge ones.

The herb "snail" is full of all the herbs you could want, as soon as I was able to go out in corona and buy herbs. And roses and flowers and an edge of ivy and some sort of wild oregano, it's amazing!

OK, ok, more later! I just got so excited watching this video from last Winter! We had just begun.