A farmer works in acres not hours.
Peggy reported that today Ted–who is renting land for his cows–and two young men were cleaning out the grape arbor area in the barn yard. When he and I fixed the broken pipe that takes water to his cows he said he would come back and push out the brush in between the fence and […]
Continue ReadingI cut down the tall bush at the electrical meter and the Pyracanthas at the bell and at the west wall of the house. Used the little tractor and 3-point hitch flat-bed to haul it all to the burn pile. Looks much cleaner, the electrical drop is not at risk and the Pyracanthas will not […]
Continue ReadingFound the leak in the line to the south side field under the large, almost dead Tallow tree. Peggy called Ted and when he got there I had dug enough to locate the problem but not see it as it is inside the stump area. We decided to locate the line on the north side […]
Continue ReadingGood to be back after a long hot summer–and still far too dry. I have been away too long but had to fit it in to other’s schedule. Peggy and Ted had kept the grass mowed and it all looks good. Used the line trimmer with the blade around the house and yard. We brought […]
Continue ReadingPeggy reported today that Ted cut the grass at Dad’s and pushed down some of the dying tallow trees I sprayed. Go Ted! She said it has also rained over 3 inches in the past few weeks and everything is growing again.
Continue Reading“We have 3 inches in rain gauge for the last 7 days!!!!! It has rained for 2 days–slow easy rain. Nice! I see trees dying everywhere [from Tom spraying Remedy last trip]. Noticed those in midfield in low area dying. Grass is growing.” It has been over four months since the farm had such a […]
Continue ReadingWorked on cleaning out the pole barn of many years of dropped implement parts and bent bolts and things that Dad did not need at some moment and did not get around to putting away–although he never had a good place to put things away.
Continue ReadingI walked north from the house down the lane to the little pasture where the long horn cows were grazing. There had been 6-8 head of almost grown heifers at the garden and back in the pasture there was 23-30. There were two very young calves. Ted Strange has cut the grass and the large […]
Continue ReadingWhen we were here last month the figs were just forming and the blueberries were light green hard balls. By the time we left on July 4th we had about 15 or so figs, after eating some, and a quart of blue berries.
Continue ReadingPeggy had cut the front and side yard last weekend and with no rain it did not grow much. Mary cut it again anyway as well as the pecan orchard over to the garden fence. That area next to the fence had grown too much for the riding lawn mower so I cut it first […]
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