Late Winter through late Spring happenings

Early Spring we hired Dale Strickland Dirt Movers to make a huge mess around the cottage to bury conduit and pipe for the utilities.  Ditches were open for several weeks and everything seemed to be a sea of mud.

We decided that Korean Nut pines would be a great addition so Dale planted 30 along the driveway and sun corridor's sunny sides.  They will grow to be as tall as 40 meters, not 40 feet as I originally thought and should bear pine nuts in 6 - 10 years.  Our favorite blue tubes now protect them from the deer.

A portion of the pine nut orchard.

We got to do the hook-up between buried pipe and the new and very expensive water meter.

I got to help Potelco make connection to the new meter socket I set on the wall of the cottage.  Installed power panels in both cottage and barn and got everything inspected before arranging for the relatively inexpensive conversion to underground connection that was formerly overhead.  Then using Cora's trusty tractor, filled in all the remaining work pits.

We fretted over color selection for the cottage with the help of some of the finest pros in the the color industry (Jane Brown) and consulted authoritative texts (Designer's Guide to Color 5), searched our souls then painted large panels before arriving at the cottage's color scheme.  The trim sort of pulled the whole thing together.  Actually, Cesar Gutierrez the painter pulled the whole thing together.  Coincidentally the scheme is not unlike Cora's truck. The front door is a dummy and not the snappy red orange one that will be hung after a little more work is done inside.

 

 

So while I concentrate on the inside of the cottage, Paulette is protecting trees with tubes.  Time to order another couple boxes of 200.    300 + covered and hundreds to go before September when the bucks will be at it again.

Dale