(written on March 1st)
Let’s see…
It was another day on the farm today.
Oh, but I guess before that, I saw that somebody had posted a little tool shed for a decent price on Facebook Marketplace. Just something to hold up shovels and rakes and what not, not any equipment.
So I drove all the way out to centerton to pick it up, driving the great white Twinkie to pick it up because the measurements that she sent me were just within the spec for being able to use the Twinkie to haul it back with, and I hadn’t driven it in a long time and needed to move it anyway, so I figured it was a good opportunity to give it some exercise.
Unfortunately, when I got there, I realized that the tool shed was a little bulbous in the middle, and the measurements she had sent me were from the edges and not including the extra on the sides. So, try as we might, there was no getting the tool shed in the van.
That was a little frustrating to drive all the way out there and not be able to come back with it, but I did pay for it, leaving the money, and saying that I would come back later to pick it up.
After getting back, I headed up to the upper field and started trying to clean up the greenhouse parts that I had strewn around. I did that for a while, and then Jim came out and helped me unload the greenhouse posts out of the dump trailer.
Pretty much right as he arrived, though, I went to grab one of the pipes off the ground, and I managed to catch a very large dead blackberry thorn perfectly embedded underneath my fingernail all the way up to the base of the thorn.
Ouch.
🤕
I tried to pick it out, but because it was dead, each effort to pick it out just resulted in the thorn crumbling. Eventually, I just got a razor blade, sliced through the nail all the way up to the tip of the thorn, cutting out a triangle shaped piece of my nail above the thorn, and then just pulling the thorn out.
Fun fun fun. 😅
After the surgery was complete, and after Jim and I finished unloading the greenhouse posts from the dump trailer, Jim jumped on the tractor and went down to brush hog around the greenhouse and around Hidden Springs Park.
Well he did that, I chopped down probably another maybe 8 or 10 trees on the dam for the big pond.
I left a fairly large one that I hesitate to chop down because it’s large, even though it’s on the dam and will likely make it harder for the dam to seal.
So it’s still there. 😅
Then I went down to the greenhouse and started pulling all the greenhouse parts out of the weeds. I think it’s been sitting for, gosh, maybe 10 years?
So while Jim was brush hogging, I was cleaning up around the greenhouse. I also chopped down a bunch more trees right next to the greenhouse.
That was super sad. They were almost all sycamores, and I love sycamores. One of them is probably 40ish feet tall. But they’ve all grown up since the greenhouse was put there, and trees right next to a greenhouse… Are not very effective.
So, all those beautiful little trees have to go, even though there are some of the healthiest trees on the whole property.
😞
I don’t like cutting those trees down. And I don’t like cutting down all the trees I cut at the big pond.
(sigh)
I think Jim and I spent some more time plotting and scheming our plans for the ram pump set up, and then he had to go because Stephanie had come home.
We didn’t get done anywhere near as much as I had hoped, But as we all know, what I think I can accomplish is generally many times greater than what I actually accomplish. 🙃
I think I just vegged a bit after that and called it a day.
Lift the world.
~ stephen
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