A farmer works in acres not hours.
Journal of events related to the pond and its perimeter. Does not include the pond yard.
1/27/2020 – As Wayne had smoothed out the ripples in the bank, I spread winter ryegrass seed on the slope and some end up on the top edge of the bank. Yesterday it drizzled all day (0.40″) so the top of the slope was muddy but the cyclone seeder spread the seed well other than […]
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1/25/2020 – Wayne returned with the excavator and smoothed out the banks that had become rippled and washed out in places.
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Wayne Maples still needs to dress up the area around the pond and the banks. But, it keeps raining a little every 4-5 days. This cold morning was very still and the reflections in the water were awesome.
Continue Reading1/17/2020 – Wayne Maples hauled in two 10 CY loads of sandy red clay from the pond he is digging for a neighbor. One load was dumped in the low place in the lane under the old oaks on the east property line. The second was dumped in and next to the long deep hole […]
Continue Reading12/10/2019 – Wayne Maples moved in his excavator yesterday afternoon and we began removal of the field fabric/barb wire fence and old posts between the barn and the pond. Today, Wayne began today excavating the pond by clearing the ditch and the old fence there and we completed the fence work along the barnyard by […]
Continue Reading12/24/2019 – Broadcast Elbon Rye and Crimson Clover on old garden, pond field, and burn pile field before the rain that is to start tomorrow–and did. On the 25th it rained all day for a total of 2.92″.
Continue Reading9/19/2019 – Mowed the pond field. 9/21/2019 – Mowed the pond area of the peanut field.
Continue Reading7/8/2019 – Between the dry weather the past few weeks and the improvements to the ditch I was able to mow well down into the weeds in the normally wet area. I also mowed the very tall nettles and grasses south of the peanuts to the ditch. Sprayed the vines, grasses, thistle, nettles, sicklepod, et […]
Continue Reading5/18/2019 – Used Fergie and the 5′ bush hog to mow the tall weeds and dead rye grass in the Pond Field, the old garden, and the burn pile field. Fergie died as I pulled into the driveway from mowing the pond field. After adding more diesel–that it may be needed–it still did not crank. […]
Continue ReadingPeggy reported that: “The Driskells have cleared some land behind the fence on our property (yours and mine). they had a large back hoe out there last week and dug up the pond area in the back. It looks good but there is no water. The land around the old water trough is cleared. All […]
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