As Andy and I were walking around the property last evening, we saw that all of our crape myrtles died back from the deep freeze we had early this year. But they are putting out new growth from ground level. We have a lot of trimming to do to get rid of the dead and give the plants a fresh start!
The freeze also affected my iris bloom -- I only had one white iris bloom and about eight blooms in other clumps around the property and they are only now (May) opening up!
This week's weather has been perfect -- high 40's-50's overnight and 60 to 75 degrees during the day, with not much wind. I've spent the last week raking leaves off of the garden beds around the house in the hopes of keeping the grasshopper population down this year. Everything is green right now. We lost several entire trees from the ice storm and we have lots of fallen branches that need to be chainsawed into pieces. We'll have to take out a few dead trees completely. WE HAVE LOTS OF CUT-UP WOOD STACKED AND READY FOR PICKUP -- IF INTERESTED, CALL ANDY AT 214-763-3823 TO MAKE ARRANGEMENTS TO COME GET IT. We are located on the road to Roman Nose State Park if you need wood for a campfire!
We are opening up one bedroom in the house for rent (the New Mexico room), and have availability in June. We are still complying with social distancing and other precautions and have changed our breakfast to a "continental" offering: coffee and juice, fruit, muffins and/or bagels, granola, yogurt. see our website: www.chaparralbb.com
We have a house concert scheduled for September 16, with Ian Leath from Chicago, Illinois. Here are links to his bio and music:
Instagram / leithalian
Youtube.com/lenhaiti
I'll be posting an Event on Facebook later in the summer.
