Spring growth

Update on the trees and other things.  We frantically planted all of the above tree types in March at the first opportunity after we had experience quite a few rather cold weeks here in NC.   The pecans (kanza and lakota) were very slow to burst their buds but finally did about in the first couple of days of May.  The apple leaves erupted way before almost right after we put them in the ground.  The bald cypress in the lowland area were late April and are doing very well in spite of the limited sunlight now with the canopy shading them.

Pecan buds

raspberry emerging

Bald cypress

The view down Beechnut Hill lane

The real house will be located about same spot as the tent

trekking down to the lowland area

The left of the trees is an old logging road that traverses part of our property

Our old 1/2 bath sink we kept and re-purposed for washing up - we'll connect the well to a cheap sink faucet via garden hose for when needed during camp outs.  We'll add a 3x3' outdoor shower platform next to it in coming weeks.

Wood shed nearly done.  Add clean gravel stone base, nail up the wire wall fence and start stacking it with all the cut rounds scattered about the property from the site clearing a year ago.

Mates