May 21, 2007

e took another day off fencing so that we could get our pastures done here at home.  There are a few bags of grass seed sitting on our front porch begging to be sown.

Picture Above: Our middle pasture. Discing and harrowing. You can just barely see the back pasture in the top half of the picture.

As usual, I was the first up this morning and I went and had all the chores done before 7 am and then made organic Nabob fair trade coffee for the guys. I made a find at the store the other day and went back last night to scam all the rest of the cans and they went back up to normal prices. The girls at the cash register refused to give it to me for the previous days price if I bought the whole shelf out. I said I was not buying anything then.

Picture Above: The very top wee section of our back pasture. Just behind the tractor to the right, is where we would build another house if we decided to move the living home site. 

Picture Below: The very bottom part of our back pasture. We try to have pockets of trees, bush and wildlife sanctuary between all of our fields. We had truckloads of sticks, such as seen in the back of this pickup truck.

Mary and I started picking rocks and sticks out of the back field for an hour and then the rototiller arrived. Amy got there sometime around that time and we tilled our garden. Then loaded up the rototiller and took it to Mary's house. We pulled the world's supply of haystring out of the 10 yards of manure she had delivered the other day and then tilled her garden.

Picture Above: Some of us took advantage of a ride whenever we could. "Kid" sitting in the seeder when it was not being used.

Then we were back to picking more rocks and sticks out of the 3 pastures at our house. We had a crew of 8 people in our fields today. We worked for hours. Two tractors working.  6 people picking. It was hot and dusty work. After we got done, Mary did the tedious job of hacking all the missed haystring which got wrapped around the tiller tines from her house.

Amy and I started to plant our garden here and got half of the 3,500 sf planted. I found a lovely little friend in the greenhouse. There are always several toads and frogs in the greenhouse every year.

Picture Above: One of the resident toads and frogs which live in our greenhouse. This one was in my Basils.