(written on the 31st, 2nd, and 3rd)
So I didn’t even get to bed until I think maybe 7:00 a.m.?
After taking such a long nap because of the migraine, I just wasn’t really in sleeping mode, so I just watched YouTube and news and Amazon Prime stuff until I figured I might as well drive away from the Supercenter parking lot and just head back to Haven Hill.
Didn’t go to the gym again. Don’t think I’ve been to the gym since the day that I needed to be rescued from the field because I was so exhausted and messed up that I could barely stand.
I swung by the recycle place a second time because I had finished another 2 l bottle that I didn’t want to carry around with me for the next time I went to Rogers.
Once I got back to the hill, I crashed, sleeping until late morning, I think.
Wanting to get everything taken care of down by the lower greenhouse, get all the greenhouse materials stacked up and on plastic, so the weeds don’t grow up through them like they did last year, I headed up to the upper field where all those greenhouse materials used to be in an effort to got the big piece of plastic to cover the ground.
Unfortunately, the plastic was so huge and heavy that I wasn’t able to load it up onto the skid steer.
How on Earth did I get it back from Oklahoma?!?!
The guy must have helped me with his big tractor or something. I do remember busting my butt trying to move that stuff, devising means of leverage to load stuff up onto my truck and into my trailer, but I don’t remember for sure how I got this massive piece in there.
After failing at that, I remembered seeing some rope, which gave me the idea of taking care of the large rotten limbs that have been hanging over the carriage barn.
So I spent probably an hour getting those limbs pulled down. The tree itself is huge, but rotten, so it’s not safe to climb up.
So I tied a rock to the end of the rope, swung the rope over the high limbs, then attached to the rope to my skid steer, and peeled out as quickly as I could to pull the rotten limbs away from hanging over the roof, so that when they snapped from the pressure, I would already be pulling them away, so they wouldn’t land on the roof after breaking.
There were two main limbs I was concerned about, but gratefully, I was able to get those broken off and on the ground without any damage to anything other than the limbs themselves.
🥳
Well, that might not be true. I noticed that the limbs were covered with poison ivy vines.
Ugh.
I hope I don’t get poison ivy.
From there, I used the skid steer to push the Big brush piles from outside the pond area down into the pond area with the rest of the brush and tree limbs and whatnot.
I spent a little time doing my online mechanic work.
Being low on sleep, I was lacking physical energy and probably mental energy as well.
I spent some time with the skid steer trying to clean up the field near the spring House Pond, there’s a section that was an absolute mess of a bramble and Vine patch that I worked really hard last year or the year before to clear, but I never got it completely finished, so I started working on finishing it today.
In the process of hauling away large logs, I got the skid steer stuck in the den of some creature. There was a huge hole dug out of the ground, and the rear tire managed to sink into the hole.
So I was stuck for a second time. Good gravy.
Gratefully, Jim came and pulled me out like you did the first time. I wouldn’t be getting stuck if I had a skid steer with tracks on it, but… mine is wheeled.
After all that, I took my nephew Thomas out to eat at The hibachi grill in Rogers. Good visit together.
Then it was back to Haven hill, then to the grocery store, then back to Haven hill. Don’t remember much of all of that or the rest of the night.
Gratitude:
- I’m grateful to Jim for getting me pulled out–again.
- I’m grateful for how much work can be done with heavy equipment in a short amount of time.
- I’m grateful that I was able to make at least a halfway decent amount of money this month, despite having been demoted for a week, and despite the accompanying demoralization and minor depression that came from my lack of resilience to those kinds of experiences. Basically the demotion led to two weeks of low earnings, but I still was able to earn at least a decent amount for the month. No broken records, not even close, but enough for my needs.
- I’m grateful for all you can eat places. 🙃
- I’m grateful I was able to spend some time with Thomas.
Success:
- 🤷
Improvement:
- Don’t remember well enough
Goodbye March!
Lift the world.
~ stephen
Lift the World 