Good morning. Summer has come early this year, before Easter; fruit trees have been seduced by temps in the 70s to put out their flowers. Freezing seems like a distant memory, but Mr. Jack Frost may be unable to resist the enticement of those beckoning tender blossoms and yet again unsheathe his magic ice wand to put thoise hussies back in their place.
Or maybe Global Climate Wierding will keep him from getting it up this year. That'll be his excuse, anyway.
Last week I ran off un-announced to help with a "workshop" on strawbale construction. A new room being added to the home of a fellow who tie dyes hot-air balloons.
Many repairs to work on this past week or so. The cheap POS rototiller had to be beaten some until its morale improved. You should see how fast I can get the carburetor off for cleaning now after 4 times, and the shift lever is still balky, but it is actually running better now after these ministrations. Turned in manure on three garden plots and tilled in the accumulation in the chicken "pasture", about 2000 SF of pen the chooks have been excluded from, and got some alfalfa seed and some oats to nurse it.
The River is Up, enough and more to fill the acequias for the next couple of months; I attend the flow daily to keep too much water from passing, as the river's flow increases. The big irrigation pump has been fired up for another season of keeping the "lawn" and the shade trees green, and there are 25 new lilacs and 25 new poplars, seedlings from the NM Forestry Dept (less than a dollar each), freshly planted and needing water often.
There seems to be a problem with the small deep-well irrigation pump; it's not putting forth the flow it should be and I'm trying to figure out anything to check before biting the bullet and spending the dough to bring in the crane and pull it up to see what's wrong. I'm hoping it is just clogged, rather than broken, but it will cost about 500 bucks or so just to look at it.
Show time. Thanks for stopping by. WAYWO?