It’s been four months since the tornado. I have serious respect for those who soldier through natural disasters and put their lives back together.
We spend many hours dealing with the clean up, the restoration and the insurance claims. We finally finished the tree removal. Five days of a full crew, removing over a hundred trees.
The Cutting Edge did all our tree work. Highly recommended. Between them and Absolute Landscaping we have almost cleared it all. Absolute now begins the repair work.
Two small locally owned companies. Howard County at its best.
We have half an acre being cleaned up and reseeded. Days of milling and scraping, adding top soil and lime, and then putting in a hardy grass to prevent erosion. We were covered in invasive plants, which we are trying to eradicate.
Things look pretty bad at times, but we do have faith.
Some of this land will hopefully end up with trees from a grant to reforest with native nut bearing deciduous trees. We are included in a proposal by Howard Ecoworks to use native trees to increase the forest canopy in the county.
Until then we are just stabilizing the area because we had major erosion in July when those three inches of rain ripped through our area.
Beyond the current work load around here, I did still make time to try something new with some native grapes. Muscadines. We had two quarts of them from our farm share.
I turned to Vivian Howard again for a recipe. Deep Run Roots.
Grape Hull Preserves.
Things are always better when you can add food making to your day. It’s my release valve. My escape from noise and dust.
Hopefully one day we will finish and can return to our hobbies, and our peace and quiet.
AnnieRie Unplugged 