Today has been very productive with some interesting moments! I spent the morning helping my brother and running erands which of course takes much longer than you anticipate. When I got home, I assumed the productive part of my day was gone. Thankfully, I was wrong. The fence to our chicken house is completely done! All that's left is to build the gate, install their nests, and patch up any holes in the old shed. I have everything except the tears into this house. Blood, check (Learned a valuable lesson about using a drill. DON'T look away when starting a screw! If it slips, it hurts). Sweat, check. There will be more of that tomorrow. This thing has to be finished tomorrow! Those chicks can't stay in the garage much longer since they're half grown now.
This afternoon we worked on rowing the garden. While my wonderful man (WM) mowed around the garden I managed to hoe ONE row. One. I worked for an hour hoeing a 100 foot stretch, hoe a foot, remove big rocks, hoe another foot, remove rocks. It was a viscious cycle. When WM was finished mowing, he remembered a horse drawn hillside plow he has. Since we don't have a horse anymore, we turned it into a Polaris 500 drawn hillside plow! Worked great! Almost. I had the easy part, driving. WM got to steer and keep the plow on track. It was tricky finding the right speed and for him to find the right angle but we finally got it! And our last two rows are perfect! The first four aren't bad, a little crooked perhaps. We managed to plow six rows in the time it took me to hoe one so I'll deal with the rows being a little crooked. Save me a blister tomorrow.
Tomorrow, we've got to finish the chicken house and plant some taters! Loving this life!
Sounds like a wonderful day of farm life... the good life. But you make me tired just reading about it all. I use to live that life... and it was a good tired.
ReplyDeleteIt's definitely a good tired! Loving every minute of it. Even the blisters, scrapes, and bruises!
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