Wednesday, April 30th - the end of another burger love season!

Today marks the last day of burger love for the year. We didn't sample quite as many as in previous years but we still did our best. It's always interesting to see if one of the burgers you really liked is the winner. We'll have to wait for a couple of weeks for that announcement. Brenda wasn't out to dance last night so no burgers were harmed. I suppose I could have gone by myself but I chose to go home instead after class. It was cold and windy anyway so once you were outside, you just wanted to get into the car and keep going. After a couple of very cool days it will be nice to see a relatively nice sunny 5' later today. This morning it's -1 but feeling more like -6. I lit a fire last night but it's burned out, so no wonder the house is chilly this morning!

Upon looking around the yard over the Easter weekend, we made the decision to cut down a couple of trees.We have two apple trees in the front yard that are no longer of any use, other than to the birds, I suppose. They do produce apples but they are not edible and then the apples fall to the ground and make cutting the lawn a bit of a challenge, especially once they start rotting. Then your running the mower over mushy brown apples and it becomes quite a mess. Besides that, the entire centre of one tree is hollow and we're surprised it's still standing after some of the wind we've had this winter. So it has to go. The upside is it's some nice hard wood we can burn next winter. It's amazing how many branches come off a tree. It's going to be one heck of a bonfire when we get a calm enough day to burn it. James will be so sorry that he missed that one - the boy does love his bonfires. I arrived home last night to just part of the trunk still standing and the majority of the branches in piles in the back yard. Still a bit of work to do, but it really makes a difference to our view from the front window. In the summer the apple tree's leaves would pretty much block the entire view of the river but such is not the case anymore.
We plan to pick up a couple of small apple trees and plant them in the side yard, and use that area as a bit of an orchard type space. I'll investigate what other kinds of fruit trees might grow here on the island.

Now that we have this lovely unobstructed view, I'll have to return to my not so subtle hints that a porch on the front of the house would be lovely. That will just have to wait till the other unfinished projects around the house are complete, but it's always good to have a goal!