Mowing

Coming out of winter the weather has been cool and wet, which means the lawn has been growing like, well - what it's mostly made of - weeds!  But it's not all bad.  The lawn behind the house erupted into a sea of violets.  Purple ones and white with purple centers.

I't hard to tell just how many tiny violets are in the grass, but there is about a 1/4 acre patch of clover, violets and lawn grass between the back of the house and the garden.  The chairs under the pecan tree are where we rest when working in the garden and enjoy looking over our little bit of heaven.

There - a close up of a couple of square feet of lawn.  Now that's a lot of violets!  But mow we must to keep control over the property or it will become a jungle and a spa resort for bugs which we don't want - especially ticks.

So we have a new toy.  A 24 horsepower 50"cut Cub Cadet lawn "tractor".  It's big enough and stout enough to mow the 2 1/2 acres we have, but is not really heavy enough or strong enough to be called a garden tractor or subcompact utility tractor.  It's really a very large riding lawn mower.  It should work nicely for us for mowing and hauling around anything with wheels, like a fertilizer spreader or large garden cart and the like.  For digging in the ground we have the BCS tiller.  In the background next to the pick up is the other new toy - a 5'x8' utility trailer for hauling equipment, hay, and building materials.  The flower bed behind me is getting ready to bloom.  I thought the plants were Gladiolus, but now I'm beginning to think they are Iris.  I'm not sure yet.  Time will tell.