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Tim May <timcmay@removethis.got.net> wrote in message news:<190320041824597467%timcmay@removethis.got.net>...
> The 12th straight day of over-75 F temperatures. Actually, my rear-deck
> recording thermometer says 90 F temps were hit several times. Blue
> skies every day, warm nights every night.

Yes, isn't it nice!  We went to Milpitas (Dave & Buster's) and back
with friends on the motorcycles last night and praise be, we didn't
freeze!  It was actually quite nice most of the time.

> Today I worked with my tree worker on the "northern slope," the patch
> of an acre or so of my property with a few dozen oaks and madrones on
> it, bordered by two "fairy circles" (no, not that kind) of redwoods. My
> land is mostly very steep, dropping nearly 250 feet from the area where
> my house is to the redwood groves at the boundary. A lot of poison oak,
> hazelnut bushes, fallen logs, ferns, and duff. Never cleared, as near
> as I can tell. Until now.

Must be a good feeling...I'm about ready to hire somebody to get rid
of a bunch of periwinkle and dig out a bay tree so I can use the hole
for a rhododendron that's outgrowing its planter.  It's
dirt-under-the-fingernails weather for sure.

Probably a dumb question considering the source of the OP, but you did
consider erosion when you cleared that hillside, right?  Are you
planning to put anything on it to keep the dirt in place?  It'd be a
drag to have to shovel your hillside off your driveway next
winter--I've seen that happen more than once around here and it always
amazes me how people can be that shortsighted.

Jeannie