No Spring Chicken!!!!

Yesterday we had a little work party here.  We needed to make a place for motor home and boat parking.  Today, I am feeling every muscle in my body!!!  I am NO Spring Chicken anymore!!!!
We started the day with some breakfast burritos from a place here in town that makes the most delicious breakfast burritos EVER!!!

Our oldest girl and her family arrived, gloves on, ready to work.  Even Hannah and Claire were dressed and ready for the day.  Here is our darling Hannah with her gloves on.  Note the ring!!!  How cute is that?

The girls  had on their work clothes, and work boots.  Hannah, it turns out, is a GREAT helper!!! 

Claire mostly had a ball running all over the grove playing!

She was not so excited about the many alligator lizards and rats we found in the wood pile!

The wood piles were all sorted, moved and relocated. 

A tree had to be removed to make a path for motor homes to fit tandem style in back.

At one point in the tree removal, while Greg was working on something else, and I was mucking out the chicken coops, I heard Jake call me over to help him.  He said, " Can you just hang from this limb while I keep sawing it down.  I need some help pulling it down."  I said, " Sure....call your chubby mother in law over so she can use her  heft to help fell trees!"   Guess I must continue with Weight Watchers to help shed my winter coat!!!
After a lunch break, Gennifer took the girls home (kicking and screaming) and Jake and Greg and I continued working outside. All.  Day!!!!  Jake left after the tree was down, all except for the stump, which our saw couldn't quite handle, and Greg and I stayed out there til dusk.  I realized at about 8:00 p.m. that I hadn't eaten since my breakfast burrito which had kept me full enough to skip lunch.
Here is the space we cleared.  Doesn't look like much, but believe me, it was a big job!!

The brambly pieces will be burned next weekend early in the morning when there is no wind. 

The smaller pieces will be cut to use for the chimneya.  The huge pieces from the big pine we had to have removed last year will be split and stacked for firewood.  Those were a bear to  move for the guys and I forgot to get a picture of where they were moved to, but you can see them being moved in earlier shots.

They were going to put the motor home back last night, but we decided to wait til tonight because today we are having this big beautiful bouganvillia you see on the left of the gate, removed to create more space and possible parking for the boat.

I hate to see that beautiful plant go, but I will not miss the mess!!  It blows those papery flowers into my garage and all around the driveway and I hate it.  I bet our neighbors won't miss it blowing into their pool either!!  We are also relocating the trash bins, and next summer, I plan to take over that space for my garden too.  It will more than double my existing space, and I have big plans for what all I will plant next spring!!!  While raking out those soft tissue papery leaves from that corner of the yard, I found that "somebody" has been laying their eggs out there!!  From now on, nobody gets to leave the coops for free ranging until eggs have been laid and collected!!!

Until next time (which might be tonight to show you what I have been making) that's it from the farm.