AH Nuts!

The black walnut are so heavy this year that the branches are dipping to the ground.

It gets pretty dark under these tall black walnut trees so the other trees either can not grow or grow twisted. 

This is an attempt to show how tall these are, it's 150 feet away.  Thank goodness I have a hard hat so I can Mow that area .  Canyoudougit?

Photo Morphing

This is the original photo.

This is what the sunflowers look like after I morph it with Adobe to make it look like it was drawn with color pencil.
Canyoudougit?

Out of the Gutter

I finally got the pine needles out of the gutters on the front of the house, I need the back ones replaced.  Somehow when I cleaned them out I twisted the wrong way and had to deal with the pain that night and all of the next day.  I mention it because I had gone to the store, got stuff to make a pecan pie and a lemon meringue to take to my sister's to share with my nephews and sisters.  My sisters family all live on the other side of Wisconsin so I never get to see them, they are really VERY good people!
It rained last night so hopefully there will be water in the barrel, save on the water bill by not using city water and the plants like it better.  Canyoudougit 

Oranges

We have three oranges growing on our little orange tree, the flowers that came at the start were little white with a yellow dot in the middle.  This tree was not suppose to flower for two years, so it is a year early.  I will find the photos later and post them.
I got to visist with my cousin Patty this week, it was so great to see her again.  She has a VERY busy life these days with kids, parents, grandkids and school.  I hope she can find time to drop me an email once in a while. 
The government is really doing STUPID things these days!!!  I think it stinks that their ideas do not include having the million and billionaires paying more than the working poor or middle class.
I have been have some nice visits and visits with my sisters, we were even able to get my brother in law comfortable so he could sleep.  Anybody know how to trim an orange tree?  Next time we will get a lemon tree.   Can you Doug it?

Birds

We've been trying to get some pictures of the visitors to one of the birdbaths here as well as at the feeders but haven't had much luck. Still it's nice out in the garden and we've been watching birds pop in and out of the wren house hanging on the arbor as well.

Old Faithful

Our old Faithful sump pump died yesterday, the motor works but the propellers inside do not, so it was running but not pumping.  I pulled it out and took it outside to disassemble it but the screws on the bottom were rusted so bad that it was not possible to get them out.  I really don't think we could have waited for parts anyway as the water runs into the basin like to kitchen faucets turned on.  Our water table is only 12 feet below the floor, something I did not know when we bought this place.  The new pump is submersible, so quieter, just hope it doesn't leak and short out.  Got it on sale as well, bought another check valve so now it has two, on at the motor and one part way up.  canyoudougit

Planned obsolescence.

Old rusted screws on the bottom.

Pop Can Bird Feeder

Old pop can, wire cutters, the left over end of a wire clothes hanger, and some mesh left over from a sifter we made last year.

Here is my version made with the bottom of two pop cans, the clothes hanger end and a piece of the hanger.

Another view of the feeder with feed in it.

This was an interest project, caused a few scrached, but was surprised by how thin the cans were.  I just cut the bottoms off a couple of cans, cut the hanger and roled the screen to fit between the two ends.  I think this worked out okay.