The newly developed pomegranate orchard has been irrigated, and now planted. Yesterday, the three of us planted about 200 trees in the new orchard, and still have about 200 more to plant elsewhere on the property. The work consist of gathering cuttings from the already developed trees here, cutting those to desired lengths, applying a root hormone to the ends, and putting them in the ground at 12 feet intervals. Pretty easy work, just tiresome if done in the middle of the afternoon heat (yesterday was 85+/-)
Overall, things are happening at a steady pace. The garden is taking off, and the rest of the orchard is doing just fine. A lot of work got done over the weekend, and we have our work lined out for the next week or so. It basically consist of cleaning out to the best of our ability a pipe that leads from the Pond 1 Box to the Triangle (Southern most tip of the property), so we can get more pressure down there to water that area. Also, doing work on the Fish and Game's section of land that borders the property here. Not much is needed there, but we have some trees planted over there that haven't received water since last summer. Someone decided to drive a tractor through there, destroying the irrigation ditches and leaving tire ruts everywhere. This left no path for the water to flow, so when we turned it on over the weekend it just became a giant muddy marsh over there. But, probably 2/3rds of the work got done over the weekend and most, if not all of the trees got much needed water. To be honest, I had no idea we were even allowed on that land. To get there, you have to go through the fence that borders our property, then through another fence that borders theirs. In between is some weird "no mans land", where I don't believe it belongs to either.
Aside from the work, we've been playing a lot of Call of Duty on xBox and i've been wandering around the land snapping photos of birds and what not. The pool should be ready for swimming very soon, looking forward to that. Plus, i'm going to try to get my belongings shipped out to me so I can ride my bike and use my computer, read my books and watch my dvds. But i've been pretty content so far without all of that.
Photo descriptions:
First one; Mud duck landing in Pond 4.
Second; Trunks, resting in the sun.
Third; One of my favorite birds here. He looks like a "Wilbur", so in turn thats what he's called.
Fourth: Moapa Valley.
