A farmer works in acres not hours.
Took off Wednesday the 13th through Friday. Cold Wednesday and Thursday with fire in fire place. Then turning warm, drizzle/rain on Friday, Saturday and Sunday morning. Had a few seedlings and very few stewart pecans. replaced spigot to fields at pump that had just started spraying. Over tightened the new spigot and cracked the T. […]
Continue ReadingThe mornings were in the low 70’s but by noon it was hot and became hotter. Ironically the fig tree nearest the barn yard entry had a few green figs and the blueberry bushes there also had a few blueberries. Small squirrels were having fun eating the pecans and racing from tree to tree. […]
Continue ReadingTed repaired the leaking water line that the Water Department confirmed was not the main line. The leak was at the 45-degree bends added by the County on the south side to lower it below the new pavement. The repair was within 2 feet of the telephone company junction box.
Continue ReadingWith a day of vacation and the July 4th holiday we got a lot done. Bush hogged the area between the ditch and the peanuts. The new muffler installed by Gordon McClinton was nice change from no muffler. Hopefully killed a lot of Chinese Tallow and Yupon with the herbicide Clear Pasture in the area […]
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We began on Wednesday afternoon, May 22 and quit late on May 26. Four hard days that began with cool mornings and as the sun rose it turn into a hot humid day that was ok in the shade. Then came to cool late afternoons that were as wonderful as the early mornings. We were […]
Continue ReadingThe weekend of March 24, 2013 was wonderful weather with only one rainy afternoon. We accomplished a lot done. [nggallery id=3]
Continue ReadingThe work began on the day after Christmas and continued through Monday, New Years Eve. We unloaded a UHaul trailer with the chairs and couch bought at Still Good. The first evening arrived with a spectacular sunset. Click to see a larger view. The north field leased by Driskel Cotton Farms was evenly blanketed in […]
Continue Reading[slideshow id=1] Saturday, 9/1/12 Tommy and Mandy Browning had painted the: living room walls; entry walls; kitchen/breakfast room ceiling. The work looked great and really wet our appetite to paint the rest. The next six days will be spent by Mary painting with Tom helping by painting the ceilings in the den, living room, dining […]
Continue ReadingThis was not to be a total work trip but that is the way it turned out. As I can make this post that is proof that we did not work all day all days. But, we did enough to make it eligible to be a “work trip” even though it rain a every day–so […]
Continue ReadingOn this Memorial Day weekend we got a lot done. The big thing for me was getting the pole on the barn and the roof joist re-attached before hurricane season. Yeah, it made it through some bad hurricanes so far but no need to continue to take that chance. Ted had pushed up all the […]
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