Thistleblooms Rambles

[SA Farm]

Loved reading bits and pieces of your journal. I totally did a walk down memory lane with thoughts of my own horses and training them back in the day. I miss having them. I still hold out hope that I’ll have one - or more again someday

 

[thistlebloom]

Loved reading bits and pieces of your journal. I totally did a walk down memory lane with thoughts of my own horses and training them back in the day. I miss having them. I still hold out hope that I’ll have one - or more again someday

Well hold on to that dream! You're still young, that season will come around for you again. I don't think you're ever too old. I'm 63 and starting a mustang from scratch. Being old doesn't always equal being smart though, haha.
I'm always happy to talk horse if you want to reminisce about your favorites.

 

[thistlebloom]

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The sky was so beautiful on Tuesday when I was coming home I had to pull over and take a picture.

Tuesday was a very spring day. Sun, hail, rain, snow pellets, sun, wind...all chasing each other.
Another day at the office.

A few minutes later the mountains disappeared.

Sun ... then the clouds let go. Makes work interesting.

Found out my clients will be back in residence in May, a month earlier than usual. I'm going to take care of things as usual, until I hear different.

 

[Bruce]

I think you should take care of things by living there until they get back, to make sure no people fleeing the Coronavirus decide to squat

 

[thistlebloom]

Thursday I decided to prune a tree that has been bugging me at work for 2 years. It's a sambucus and was just a horrible mess.
Should really come out as it doesn't add to the landscape, but I will wait for my clients to make that decision. I would love to replace it with a Cherokee Brave dogwood.

Here it is before the attack.

And the aftermath...

I took so much off! There were two dead trunks in there along with all manner of crossing twisted branches and waterspouts.
I could have kept going because it's all congested up higher, but then I would have ended up with a matchstick, lol. Poor old ugly tree.

 

[Senile_Texas_Aggie]

It looks a whole lot better.

 

[Bruce]

TONS of watersprouts! I'm sure it will look better and be healthier this year than it did last year.
Does it fruit? There are some who swear by Elderberry syrup for health purposes.

 

[thistlebloom]

We'll see what happens when it leafs out. I know there will be a lot of exuberant growth where I made all the cuts, so in June I'll have to get back in there and rub them out. No, @Bruce , I've never seen it bloom, and there are definitely no berries on it ever. Do they make fruitless elderberries?

 

[Bruce]

You would know that better than I!!! I only know it is elderberry because I had no idea what sambucus is.

 

[thistlebloom]

I looked it up and cannot find a fruitless elderberry. I know there are a lot of ornamental fruit trees that have been bred to be fruitless, but doesn't seem to have happened in the sambucus lines. Maybe the thing does bloom, but I am sure there have never been berries, unless a neighbor has been sneaking in and harvesting, LOL.
This landscape is fairly low maintenance so I don't spend a lot of time there in the summer. It is the "guest cottage" to my big job.