More than we expected.....

 8:42 am - Friday - February 13th - TWW - 39° F, humidity 68%, cloud cover 91%, wind 7 mph out of the east.....heavy cloud cover today with a forecast of rain, and a high of 47° F.  The view this morning....

....and on this date in 2013 TLE and I were in Miami, FL.....

....visiting the Viscaya Museum and Gardens (pronounced viscayaya).  TLE performed with her high school orchestra there back in the late 60's....she played violin.

We had enough sun Thursday to get all the batteries on the property back to 100%, and we had some beautiful cloud formations throughout the day...

.....when we first arrived here at TWW last October we found this old cement mixer out behind the barn, and it has sat there in the same position since then.  TLE and I had talked a few times about what to do with it, and finally we decided it should join our other lawn art collection out by the entry road next to the greenhouse.  I used the Ford 420 diesel tractor to move it....

....eventually we think we'll turn the wheel barrows into planters for flowers, and maybe even the cement mixer.  By the way, the tractor is running magnificently....starts every time....knocking on wood as these words hit the page....lol.

I've been wanting to move the water trailer from its current position next to the water tower to a spot out near Phyllis' Newell for some time now, but I needed to repair a severed cable that runs from the rear of the transmission on the 1969 Chevrolet C50 tilt bed truck back to the rear of the dump bed before I used it to do so.  That took me the better part of an hour of crawling in and out of the area under the dump bed, but finally the truck was ready to move, and hook it up to the water trailer for the first time.  You may recall I had a receiver hitch welded to the rear of the truck last winter, and just received and installed the adjustable hitch a few weeks ago.  With TLE's help I backed the 1969 Chevrolet C50 dump bed truck up to the tongue of the trailer, dropped the tongue on the hitch.....

Now we can drive through there again

The water trailer is now parked out near Phyllis' Newell (it is to the right in this picture, out of sight)

......and then moved it.  The water trailer has been parked next to the water tower, when not in use, for at least 2 months, and that path is one we frequently use to drive the side by sides from the front of the house to the area out by the barn.  When the trailer is parked where it has been parked we have to drive around.

After taking a suitable break around 1 pm we headed out to the chicken coop area to trim back all the trees which surround it in close quarters to we can begin to clean up the area, and rehab the chicken coop.....

Looking westward

Looking northward

.....the chicken coop (used to be a pigeon coop) is directly behind the house.  The roofing appears to be in good shape, and the interior appears to be staying dry.  We just need to clean out the interior, fix a few things, and then repaint it.....

....then tear down and replace the old fencing, which is in sorry disrepair.....

.....the aftermath of trimming the juniper trees which surround the chicken coop......

.....by the time I finished cutting branches it was 3 pm, leaving little time to drag all the branches into a pile for later incineration, so we deferred that part of the operation to another day, and put our tools away.  We got a lot done Thursday....more than we expected, but we were also tired.  I took a shower, then a long nap before TLE served her famous beef and cheese burritos for dinner.

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