Hen run posts are in and door is permanently in place. All the netting is re-attached and we are back in business. I need to spread out the compost in the hen run so the girls can get scratching. All that is left of that project is to backfill around the new door post and re-set that concrete threshold that I uncovered when digging out the old posts.
Did our first lawn mowing of the season. Everything looks much nicer now. For some reason, this year, we had big tall thick clumps of grass coming up randomly. I've noticed almost every year we have some small vigorous clumps, which I attribute to "better nutrition" from the hens free-ranging and free-pooping all over the place. But we've never seen anything like this!
Today I got five more buckets of dirt from E's back yard pile and finished filling up the platform that the wireframe deer stands on. Now I just need to plant some small-leaved ivy in it and train that to cover the deer frame. Hey presto: topiary deer. I hope.
Got two very big, very flat, very nice stones for the Folly Wall. I set the biggest on the top of the rebuilt south facing wall and my gosh, what an instant improvement! It was as if that stone was made for that spot. Perfect fit. The second slightly smaller stone went onto the top of the other raised bed and again, big improvement. I'm hoping to completely rebuild the north-facing wall of the north raised bed tomorrow, if we don't get the heavy rain being predicted. (I had to take that wall down to remove and reset the preformed pond.)
And finally, did *gulp* my income taxes and got everything sent off and paid for. It's always nerve-wracking but I tell myself if I wants to drive on roads without ruts, I pays my taxes. 
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Spring is shaking out her tresses everywhere. My pink flowering crabapple is blossoming and the smell always takes me right back to senior high prom and my best friend Kenny Kist. 
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