Our grove

I noticed the other day that we were getting some kind of vine growing up in our grove and even though it looked kind of pretty – I’m sure that it wasn’t good for the trees at all. So I started to pull down the ones off the trees that I could reach and of course the majority of the vines were much higher than I could jump. So I went and got the rake to see if that would help. Now I never imagined that a garden rake could get heavy, but take my word on this – they do if you are holding it and jumping in the air to try to get these dumb vines off of tall trees! Finally I got down as much as I could and went to see if Daryl could bring the tractor around and then we could climb in the bucket to get the ones off the top. The reason I wanted these off is because I read that if you get a lot of vines on your trees, that they can be so thick that the tree can’t get any light to the leaves and it kills them. Not a good thing right? So Daryl started up the tractor and it didn’t take long until he got it back to the grove. He climbed in the bucket first to see if we could reach the vines and then we switched spots. It worked pretty good and if you grabbed the vines just right you could get most of them down. So there is a trick to riding in a tractor bucket when your driving around. If you’ve never done it, I’ll try to explain it. Rule # 1 (and really it’s the only rule) : you have to have total confidence in the tractor driver. The reason that I say that is because they have to tip the bucket up and then up once again while you’re in it and you better hang on and you just hope that they don’t tip it too much. Then in this case, you are driving around in the grove so they have to be watching for branches and so do you! If you don’t  – the branches will either put some major scratches on places you never dreamed about getting scratched or in my case, I’m afraid that I’ll get knocked out. But guess what? Daryl is really good at this and no issues. We did a quick check of the grove and couldn’t see any more of these vines on the trees so our work was done for the night. Now it was time to make supper. It was kind of a good meal if I say so myself. I know that William is going to be leaving for college next week and for some reason I feel that I have to make a lot of food for him for the long trip. (I never said it made any sense now did I?) Anyway, we had grilled T-Bone steak, homemade mash potatoes, I found some sweet corn in the patch by the grove that was good so we had fresh sweet corn, tomatoes from the garden, sauteed some fresh onions for the steak, fried up a lb of bacon to put also on the steak, cut up a watermelon, fresh peas, and had some salads. Pretty good huh? And to top it off I had caramel brownies with ice cream if anyone was still hungry. And what will we have next week for supper when William is gone? Probably cereal 🙂

Supper tonight

The photo of the day is that of our 6 pack of kitties. I have no idea why this one kitty has to always lay in the food.. And she wonders why the other kitties are always licking her!

Supper time!