Days With the Duerksens

That's a lot of hedge posts! For most of February and March, Chelan, Caiden, and Grandpa worked at cleaning up trees on a piece of ground we bought.  There was a very long hedgerow that needed to be cut up, so after they were professionally pushed over, the chainsaws came out!  The goal was to cut as many large hedge posts as possible - 240 in all!  Some posts have been sold already, but there are plenty more available to sell! In the rush to get corn planted on that field in April, the remaining trees were pushed together into piles and burned.  It was a little tricky to find the right day for this as we had so many EXTREMELY WINDY days in March.  Remarkably, Chelan found a good day and most of the piles burned really well.  There are still a couple of piles out there, but the corn is planted around them. Before piles and fire  Supper was at the field that night: After fire It takes a lot of work to get a field ...

While working in the garden one day, Cambry had a vision for a new path leading up to the water tank.  I didn't give it much thought until she told Chelan about her idea and he got things set up for her vision to become a reality.  So there they all were - suddenly laying bricks for a new path in the garden!  She wanted flowers, too, lining either side of the path.  As soon as I brought some Marigolds home, she helped me plant them.  It has added some visual interest to our garden, for sure!  I think we will be relying on her creative visions as long as she is around to supply them!

Delaney and Cambry were busy teaching this morning!