Saturday Feb. 26

Beautiful spring weather continues ... peach trees blooming, Bradford pears blooming ... high 70's ... this is like April. Morning run, feed and kennel, out again briefly, then load dogs in van and go to nearby town for a ride ...  stop by flea market, waiting in van for husband, I'm falling asleep to be wakened by all the dogs barking ferociously ... one of husband's workers has come up and is pressing his face against the window ... I open door so dogs can see it's a friend ... they settle back down ...return, start pruning trees (now I'm at the point of marking branches too big for my clippers with orange tape) ... and mow. The vetch is popping up everywhere, my beautiful purple spring nightmare ... inside for lunch, brush Corey, brief naps then out again ...husband joins in mid afternoon to help with pruning of apple and pear trees (which are out of control ...) Corey is in heaven lots of branches to chew ... Snoopy gets to play fetch a lot, as Corey is interested in the branches ... Banshee and DB interested in the neighbor's horses, who are remarkably friendly, touching noses through the fence, this is too much for Banshee who starts barking and running in circles ... dark is coming, 2 more weeks til daylight savings time starts (and we'll get another hour to work outside... dont know if this is good or not, I'm pretty tired!) Back to trailer, fix food under Corey's supervision, feed and kennel.