Pruning Time

My plan for today was to prune the rhododendron that the snow had bent down onto the blueberry bushes.  It was a little chilly early, so I worked on the P-51B.  I decided that in three days I will probably be re-masking the cowl and repainting the red again.  You can see the difference between the paint on the cowl and canopy and the fuselage.  The wing fillets were also that color before I painted the fuselage.  I am not looking forward to masking off the canopy, those windows are going to be a pain!

When it warmed up, I got the 4 wheeler and the trailer out, I wanted to use the trailer for hauling branches, the problem was it was full of dirt from digging the pond.  I had made a screen, so I ran all the dirt over it and used it to fill in around the pond.  Then I attacked the rhododendron bush, I have a winch hooked to it that I have been slowly pulling it back into position.  I couldn't go any further because it was hooked into the dogwood tree.  I ended up pruning both of them quite a bit and then pulling the rhododendron up some more.  By the time I got all the limbs hauled away and cleaned up the area, it was dinner time.  Once my tummy was full, I sat down to put a little heat on my back and promptly fell asleep.  I had just woke up when James, Levi and Mik stopped by to visit after their basketball game.  Mik had tried to call us, but I did not hear the phone while I was working.  After they left, I took pictures of the P-51, the rhododendron and a flower that wintered over, it was a big surprise when we discovered several had survived.

It looks pretty good, I have been giving it lots of Miracle Grow.