#spring chores

[welldigger62]

Got one chore checked off. ✅

Look at that shine on that blade! She’s ready to cut some grass. 😃

[johnschneiderblog]

On the cusp

Like a lot of other people, we've been lured by recent spring-like weather into spring-like chores.

In a collosal leap of faith, I pulled up our driveway markers Tuesday and took a couple of preliminary steps toward taking the snowblower off our tractor and installing the mower.

Meanwhile, Sharon slashed and burned, raked and burned, dragged and burned ... Look carefully and you might see her behind the smokescreen.

The forecast for today in mid-Michigan is 68 degrees and sunny, but temperatures well below freezing are in the picture for early next week.

[lazyevaluationranch]

17-03-2024 Vulture.

The turkey vultures spend the winter in Venezuela, fly North along the mainland, and circle in groups above the shoreline. In the air they mostly lock their wings open and glide, not flap. So where the land ends they must circle at the water's edge and wait for the wind to be right to glide across to the islands in a group.

For months there have been no vultures, and then suddenly yesterday the wind opened their way home and the island's whole population is here, all at once. It's like someone found a giant knife switch labeled "Vultures" in a cave and shoved it to "on" with a satisfying "KA-VULTURE" sound.

The house is perched atop a stony ridge. The sun falls on the bare dark glacier-scraped slope behind the house and warms the stone, and from the warm stone a column of warm air rises. The vultures enter this invisible pillar of air and circle around its edges, upwards, upwards, around and above the house on ink-dark wings that glow where the sunlight comes through the edges of the feathers.

Sometimes they leave this air-column and glide over to the next stone ridge, the next invisible column of air, and the next beyond it, the next beyond that. Watching the vultures trace out the locations of the pillars, you get a sense of a whole vast structure of warmth and wind, like some grand invisible temple rising hundreds of meters into the bright brazen sky.

It's always here, I think, the huge columns, the invisible temple the glaciers built, made of air and light. But I can only see its structure when the vultures trace it out for me, like architectural drawings. Glad someone found the KA-VULTURE switch this year.

[quietlyblooms-gone]

just a small note that i’m sort of?? taking a break to recharge away from tumblr! i think i might be experiencing a bit of burn out on top of being tired, and it’s making it really hard to feel motivated. so hopefully a lil fresh air and indulging in other interests helps me to get back on track. thank you for being patient with me, and i hope everyone stays happy and healthy!!

[veradune]

Beautiful day for a wander, I even witnessed a wild Canadian shopping cart in it's natural habitat.

[giffypudding]

Hurry, people are coming over

[welldigger62]

My new chainsaw-

I bought this to get at the hard-to-prune areas on the apple trees. Pretty small but it gets the job done. It is just turning warm here and I wanted to get trimming done before the sap starts running (no, not me 🤣)

These pine branches are next. These were dropped by the power company while they were restoring power after the crash out front last month. Brush pickup will start here in about three weeks.

Happy Spring 😃

[bughead-in-the-comics]

From Rugged, Archie's Pal Jughead #4 (1956).

[orangeshinigami]

This time of year is always so funny to me as a brazilian girlie bc while everyone else is complaining about the cold, it’s like 35 degrees celsius here send help I’m abt to melt

[butchfriend]

fml my manager asked me if i could work tomorrow night for a private party and i said yes, completely forgot there's a contra dance tomorrow i was planning to go to with my friends. L

[freshthoughts2020]

[nncastle]

The first wildflower field is tilled, cleaned, and planted. Fingers crossed.

[despairforme]

Why have iced coffee when you can have milkshake??

[maybe-drawing]

!! Spoilers for Curse of Strahdanya !!

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Listening to Chapter 11 while Gorcory Shopping sure was a Choice and an Experience™

Sarnax begging for Shepard to k i l l him while I'm standing in the freezer section will now be engraved in my brain forever

I am unwell (/pos)

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[allwillbecomeclear]

༘⋆🫧💭₊˚ romanticizing my little life

[peaceeandcoolestvibes]

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