47. "I already overdid it splitting firewood" In response to In response to 0
some neighbors had a few trees taken down. I somewhat foolishly agreed to take the wood, which the tree guy was kind enough to bring over to my house but left as five 12-15' lengths of mature white pine trunks. So I had to saw them into firewood lengths and split. Then I had a mature white pine of my own taken down and split that too. I don't have a hydraulic splitter either, did it all by hand with an 8 lb maul. At least pine splits easier than hardwoods (though it burns faster of course, and needs to age until winter 2017-18 before I start burning it.)
I might actually have to split some more as my folks just had 6 oaks & tulip poplars taken down. Going to avoid it if possible (though I will need wood for the coming winter.)
Other than that: -Veggies are doing great; spinach has long since bolted, radishes are going now and the lettuce will be done in a week or two. Need to clean out the greens and get my tomato/pepper/eggplant seedlings in. Sugar snaps are in now. Cucumbers are starting to put some vine on. -I'll need to stain the playset and the 'tree fort' (really a deck built under a tree since my wife and I had differfing concepts of what constitutes a 'tree fort') by midsummer -power washing the house -Flowers: need to dig up, divide and replant several daffodil clumps that are getting less sun than they used to -then in fall, need to transplant a bunch of hydrangea and azalea cuttings to the area that used to be under the white pine I had taken down. Will be much easier to garden there now. -I need probably two truckloads of wood chips to spread. Some parts of my garden haven't been mulched in three years and are in bad need.