A farmer works in acres not hours.
Mixed 3 gallons of gly at 4 oz. per gallon in the new backpack sprayer and sprayed around: all pecan trees in the orchard and yard that did not have beds; around the barn and old equipment; around the grain bin; around the blueberries in the yard and pond yard; around the 3 magnolias in […]
Continue Reading8/7/2019 – Melvin Williams poured 8 CY of concrete with fiber reinforcing in the southmost section of the barn. The slab has an 8″ or so deep edge beam and is at least 4″ thick. He finally wrecked the edge forms on 8/17/2019.
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1/21/2019 – Ted Strange helped install two replacement poles for those that had rotted and two additional poles for the future inside shop wall. The rotted poles where the southeast corner and the one immediately north of that one. When I pried those poles from the beam they fell over. There was hardly any large […]
Continue ReadingAs the augers were hauled away and that area cleaned up we could finally rearrange equipment, get rid of stuff and create more order. On this Halloween day, we made a lot of progress. Used Fergie and the boom to move the platform Frank built for Dad (for the back door wheelchair ramp) from the […]
Continue ReadingGood progress this trip despite it being very hot by 10 AM until 5 PM. Mid 90’s with high humidity. Wednesday, 7/11/2018 – With a UHaul 6×12 cargo trailer loaded down we drove nine hours to the farm. Arrived on a very hot, humid afternoon. Unloaded the trailer stuff and got the AC going. Still, […]
Continue ReadingTuesday – Arrived after driving through the steady rain from Gulfport. It had slowed to a drizzle when we arrived and so got the TT hooked up and everything works. The rain made it much cooler so that was great. Wednesday Jeff the trim guy and helper arrived at 7:30 AM. Mary and I talked […]
Continue ReadingDecember 24, 2017 – So, the week begins. Christmas Day – Sorted through old boxes of stuff in the front guest room. Setup two sets of “LAN” shelves in the grain bin and moved a lot of stuff from the carport storage room there. 26th – Took old bed frame, bedclothes, lamp and nightstand to GoodWill. […]
Continue ReadingThe “week” began on Saturday the 26th, warm and humid cooling off a bit when a windy front blew through Monday the 28th. Sunday was a quiet day including: trying to clear out the ditch between the ponds at the back of the barn; weeding flower beds; sprayed fungicide on the hydrangeas for Cercospora leaf spot […]
Continue ReadingCombine and heads have been taken by David Wayne Presley. Note in panoramic photo below the heads and combine (was inside the barn) are gone. The tank at the barn was moved there from the garden fence where it has been for years. The bush hog that was tipped up on the grain head is […]
Continue ReadingThis will be remembered as the weekend when:– we first tried out the Swisher line trimmer;– climbed on top of the grain bin to reinstalled the cap after jacking up the auger, and;– most memorable: the day Ted cleared the trash trees from the east and north side of the barn. Arrived at the farm […]
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