December has brought some cool weather and also some very welcome rain! We had a couple of showers that provided enough moisture to warrant the lifting of the burn ban we have been under for more than a year. All the trees and brush we cleared before building the new house have been sitting in a huge pile since November of 2010. The burn ban was lifted on Monday, November 28, so Terry and Matt began burning on Tuesday the 29th. They burned for three straight days - 12 hours a day - to get rid of it all! The pile of ashes is just about the center of where the workshop will be.
That task clears the way for the construction of a 30' x 40' workshop/garage which will begin this week...hopefully...if there is no more rain. I want to be sure to clarify that we are NOT wishing for no rain. It has been too dry for too long to do that, but our goal of having the workshop completed by Christmas is slipping away. There is no specific reason for wanting it done by Christmas (other than dominoes!), so we will be patient if the rain does delay us any further.
There always seems to be a domino effect...or maybe it is a reverse domino effect...in my projects. In order to accomplish one task another task needs to be done first, and in order to get that task done something else has to happen beforehand, etc. The workshop is one of those dominos that has to happen before other things can be done.
Birds continue to make news at the lake! The goldfinch love their new feeder and have been emptying it almost every day!
The flicker hangs on the sunflower feeder, but no one seems to be interested in the suet.
Hi Lydia! It's a male Red-bellied Woodpecker! Send him up our way, we just have a female Red-bellied this winter :)
ReplyDeleteI should have known I'd have it wrong! ;-) He seems pretty content here - maybe the female should come down here!
ReplyDeleteI think our female would much prefer your temps right now!!! :)
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