Fall Projects

9/23/12

Wow, how the days disappear!  School has been good this year, but it's always a shock to get back to a routine that means being gone from the farm from 5:45 AM till 4 PM.  Now all the projects that need doing have to be crammed into the early evening or the weekend.

Fred got the three remaining, surviving seedlings transplanted last weekend.  Two blue spruce and one lilac have been added to our tree population.  I hope they survive the winter!  I may have to bank them with straw for an insulation assist.  We had so little snow last winter that many, many trees died from exposure.  It's sad to see a stretch of 50 foot tall poplars lining a road, now dead except for one...  Our trees made it without too much frost damage, and I hope they all get through this coming winter as well.

While Fred was digging holes, I was shoveling rock.  The Henry puppy has a habit of making a great bounding leaping pounces at the kennel fence when he sees Jack (the barn cat) on the other side.  This has pushed the pea rock through the fence and piled up on our gravel path.  Note how high up on the 6x6 timbers the rock has piled!  I spent some serious time and back-muscle relocating it all back into the kennel.

 Notice the nice new boards along the bottom edge of the kennel? That was part of last weekend's projects.  Fred and I generally don't work well together (we both want to be the boss), but we managed this one with no arguments!  Such an accomplishment!

Only partially done shoveling up the rock, but at least I can see the sides of the 6x6 now.  I  had to sort of pour it through the fence into the kennel.

You can see where it's piled up on the inside, against the new boards.  I cleaned up the edges and after a week, it still looks pretty tidy (Dad would approve!).

We're getting things ready for the cold season.  Still some projects to go, but a couple things checked off the list anyway!