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Finishing the Building Pad

Amidst a bout with kidney stones, extremely hot and windy weather, we finished our building pad and foundation lay out. I started by staking out a general layout of the foundation, placing corner stakes for the foundation in the location that we wanted the house to sit. This was not an exact layout just a general one done with a tape measure, stakes and string lines. Since we sit on 5 acres with no required set backs and no easements, I was not concerned with citing the corner of the house +/- ¼”. It was sorta a “looks about right” […]

May 21st, 2012 | Tags: , , | Category: Construction, Equipment | One comment - (Comments are closed)

Rain in the Desert

We had a wonderful week of rain here in the dry southeastern New Mexico desert. Because of the dirt road in front of our property, we tried to minimize the driving we did when the weather was so wet, but welcomed the wonderful smell of the rain and much-needed moisture. It came just in time to give additional water to our newly-transplanted pecan trees, as well as the native cacti on the property. Here are photos of the blooms that came soon after the rain:

The prickly pears look like they’ll be producing fruit, so maybe I’ll try my hand […]

May 19th, 2012 | Tags: , | Category: Homestead | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

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May 16th, 2012 | Category: Uncategorized | One comment - (Comments are closed)

Pecan Tree Placement

Yesterday was a red letter day! We got two of our four pecan trees placed on the Homestead. While the process was going on, I was able to video them. See the progress here:

Preparing the Hole:

Planting the Tree (1st Tree):

Planting the Second Tree:

For more information about transplanting mature pecan trees, check out our previous posts on Mature Pecan Trees and Pecan Trees for the Homestead.

Now that the trees are planted, we know we need to be very diligent about watering them heavily until they are very well established. Initially, we plan to […]

May 5th, 2012 | Tags: , | Category: Orchard, Uncategorized | Comments are closed

Planting Mature Pecan Trees

As mentioned in an earlier post, pecan trees do very well in New Mexico. We were fortunate to find someone to sell a few to us for the Homestead. According to my Dad, with the trees having the late spring and summer to establish themselves (assuming we give them good quantities of water), we could possible see some pecans on the next year (2013) winter harvest.

To get ready for the trees, we had to identify where we wanted them, the spacing and how we planned to water them. With the ground being so completely dry (due to lack […]

May 4th, 2012 | Tags: , | Category: Orchard | Comments are closed