We made another trip to the farm today; we had several things we needed to do. First we had some more trees to plant, junk we needed to haul to the recycler and peg board to mount in the barn. We went over on Wednesday night so we could get a head start on the work. When we got there we were unloading the blazer when Steve pulled in, he is the guy that had the cattle on the property when we first bought it. He wanted to know if he was going to be able to bale the pasture again this year, which we agreed to do that. Hopefully we will be able to get more than one cutting this year. After Steve left we had another visitor, our neighbor, Terry came over and wanted to know if we had found his fishing pole, if you remember 2 posts ago that I wrote about finding a fishing pole and tackle box down at one of the ponds, will it was his. I bet he won’t be leaving that around anymore.
We stayed at the Hampton Inn in Martin Wednesday night and got an early start Thursday morning, we got to the farm and hooked up to the trailer and pulled it out, it was already loaded down with some metal. We then got Kamo Kirby (name of Lois’s golf cart) yes we have the golf carts named and who they belong to. We took it down to one of the draws that I had found some metal that I wanted to take to the recyclers; it was an old watering tank. Well we hooked a chain to the tank and to Kirby and away we went. Right up the side of the draw without any problems at all. I got the tractor out and mashed the tank and some old barrels that were on the trailer. We then tied everything down and off we went. We got $16.00 for the metal; we only had 400 lbs of metal. Important thing is it is gone.
When we got back to the farm the next thing on the agenda was to plant the trees we brought with us. We had 2 apple trees, 1 granny smith and 1 Macintosh, one clump white birch and a holly bush.
The apple trees we planted on the south side of the draw that leads down to the south pond and yes that is me in my bibs.
We stayed at the Hampton Inn in Martin Wednesday night and got an early start Thursday morning, we got to the farm and hooked up to the trailer and pulled it out, it was already loaded down with some metal. We then got Kamo Kirby (name of Lois’s golf cart) yes we have the golf carts named and who they belong to. We took it down to one of the draws that I had found some metal that I wanted to take to the recyclers; it was an old watering tank. Well we hooked a chain to the tank and to Kirby and away we went. Right up the side of the draw without any problems at all. I got the tractor out and mashed the tank and some old barrels that were on the trailer. We then tied everything down and off we went. We got $16.00 for the metal; we only had 400 lbs of metal. Important thing is it is gone.
When we got back to the farm the next thing on the agenda was to plant the trees we brought with us. We had 2 apple trees, 1 granny smith and 1 Macintosh, one clump white birch and a holly bush.
The apple trees we planted on the south side of the draw that leads down to the south pond and yes that is me in my bibs.
The birch we planted down by the south side of the south pond. If it survives it will be very pretty there. You can see it in the for ground.
The holly bush I planted along the fence line north of the barn, I want to do this to separate us from the neighbors.
I then went to work on the peg board area, it not only is pegboard but it is also more wall storage space. We started running out of room for shovels, weed eaters and such. Lois went into town (subway pizza) to get lunch for us. We still need to do some work on this but you can see before and after pictures.
Pictures of some of the tulips we planted earlier this year.
Picture of the azaleas on the other side of the pond
Once done with that I did get to do some fishing, caught 5 crappie and 1 bluegill (which was a big one).
