So we took all of the rocks we found in this thicket after we burned it:
and turned it into Anna’s soon-to-be Wildflower garden:
(You’ll also notice that it has rained recently and the lighting is much better… And the fence is going up. =])
Enjoy,
AshAnna
Life around AshAnna’s place has been crazy as of late. We’ve been doing so much, It would take too long to make a post for each item, so I’m going to throw them all together in picture format. I’ll try to do a little of narration to keep you on track.
First: Mocha. I’m sorry, she’s just so ridiculous I can’t help but take the pictures:
(This one’s so awesome I created it as a 1440×900 desktop too.)
Ashton finally got his hair cut:
Ashanna created a flowerbed on “the dull side of the house”
Here’s the progress on the stone wall:
We rented a post-pounder for the weekend.
We woke up the other day to this:
There were three of them in this next picture… but I was too slow.
Chickens:
Enjoy,
AshAnna
So I was in the middle of “working hard” when I noticed some birds flying outside my window. To make a long story short; there were two Bald Eagles (one juvenile (all brown), one adult (white head and tail)) flying around and “playing” with two smaller birds which were probably either baby Eagles or hawks (most likely babies).
The adult Eagle dived into the ground just over our fence and caught what was probably a gopher/ground squirrel, and threw it at the juvenile! He grabbed it (off the ground) and flew off with it, which just happened to be right towards my window, so I took this picture:
Enjoy,
AshAnna
If you’ve ever been to our house, as you drive down our driveway, up to our house, you’ll see a nice line of large rocks on the right, with small trees in between them. On the left, you see a pile of dirt and rocks, covered in weeds.
I (Ashton) got this crazy idea in my mind that I can create a awesome terraced planter there! So, as crazy ideas usually begin, I got right to work. =]
Whoever built our house evidently ran into a bunch of large rocks as they are distributed around the property, including on top of this ugly hill. I brought it upon myself to bring these rocks down, and line them up in a nice straight line. Mind you these rocks are 300-600 lbs each…
Here’s the first shot I took of the area. You can see the random large rocks around the top of this hill: (I have already moved two big rocks into place.)
And then I moved a bunch of them down. 
Buddy helped me move the last one (on the right), which was at least 500lbs.
Here’s a close up of the progression that I went through in ~4 hours:
More to come,
-AshAnna
Wow! the sun finally came out, and the weather was nice, so Anna and I found ourselves outside a lot this weekend.
We started a bunch of projects, and finished most of them. But today was the most exciting as Anna and I made our first burn pile. Our lawn has been surrounded by two very large thickets of tall grass and weeds that we haven’t figured out what to do with… until today. We had a couple friends over helping us to fence the back half of our property, and they said, “Why don’t you burn this thicket?” uh… Okay… so without further ado, he pulls out his lighter, and lights two spots of dried grass in the thicket. I didn’t even have time to take a picture of a “before”, here’s some “during”s and “after”s:
And by the time the fire finished burning the dried plants in the thickett, it ran out of things to burn and basically completely died. (Sucks for the gophers who used to hide in it =])
Anna and I were pretty excited about this burning thing, so Anna says, “Let’s burn this one, too!” lol This time I got a before and after.
Before:
After:
Hey look, a huge pile of rocks we didn’t know existed. “Boo Yea! More Rocks!”
Then I got a huge pile of dried up weeds together and lit them on fire! “Ooooh…”
Enjoy!
AshAnna
