I'm starting to think that this job, like painting the den, will never be done, despite me knowing for a fact that work is done on it every single day ( Read more... )

So now the back yard is juniper free! Today was more branch hauling to the monsterously huge brush pile in the back of the property, which the local quail have decided is peachy keen and are living in. Guess clearing away the pile will wait until after baby quail season...

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So the kid hit her dad up for a treat off the ice cream truck, which just happened to be trundling by when he brought her home from school.

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Since we're going to be setting eggs to incubate on March 30th to hatch for our annual Chickam web broadcast on April 20th, I'm test running the incubators.

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That big asshole juniper in the corner turned out to in fact be TWO plants, although one had horror-movie-worthy multiple trunks.

They are GONE.

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More Juniper Death today. Today the kid and I worked on clearing cut branches, and cutting back the grandfather of all these nasty assholes, the one on the far right, here it is last June, 'before':

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Arg fargl, the den is done.


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Two projects still underway, one nearing completion and that's the den painting. Last wall!
Before:

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OK, the den painting is never going to get done, despite me actually PAINTING the thrice damned room. That's how it seems, at any rate. Anyway, today's progress:

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STILL painting the den, for the love of God. It's going excrutiatingly slowly, as my body is gleefully reminding my brain that I'm not 20 anymore and can no longer bite off a job like this and expect to get it done in 1-2 days, haha ( Read more... )