Stumpless on daffodil day

We are stumpless apparently!

If you've been here for the last six months as a stump and haven't shown any signs of re shooting then today your time was up.

Can't even bring myself to enlarge this photo because it's so ugly. And there were many such ugly stumps and dead, black branches dotted around the place. All this ugliness led me to encourage Bill to buy a chainsaw. We have already spent over $4,000 getting tree loppers in to remove the large dead trees and we could see that it was going to be an ongoing task.

 I think I may have created a monster!! I can't get the thing off him now! If he's not out on the ride-on with the cart attached, then he'll be chopping something down....or both!

And then up to the new wood pile for stacking or over to the bonfire for the messy bits ( the bonfire is usually going too!).

After a huge day of stump work, it's garage time.....the only garage we are likely to see for the moment. Nothing happened today. Just a meeting with our project manager and the concreting man. 

These pretty birds were sighted at breakfast time this morning.  They are European goldfinches according to my Bird man.

Late this afternoon when we were sitting outside after Bill had "locked up" the mower, we saw a magpie fly to one of our back paddock trees and settle in a nest high up in the branches. This is him (or her)  taken with Bill's zoom in camera.....

And this is the tree......the nest is in the fork of two branches three quarters of the way up the tree.

This young crimson rosella also arrived for a drink at breakfast. 

Beautiful daffodils inside for daffodil day......

Spring is definitely in the air.......and I am loving it.