I made a trip to the farm on Tuesday May 5th to do some maintenance on some of the equipment. Usually when I am at the farm I am using the equipment and don't get to check everything.
First was the tractor and brush hog, the tractor just needed to have all the fluids checked and they were all okay. Next was the brush hog which needed greased, I have never had to disconnect the PTO on anything before in my life. Well I read the instructions and gave it a try and right off it came. So I got things greased and went to put the PTO (which means Power take off) and it won't go back on. I worked and worked with it put grease on it, WD40 on it, pushed, pulled, wiggled and finally it snapped on.
Next was the golf cart batteries and checking to see if they needed any water put in them, there are six batteries in each cart and they all looked good except one which was a little low.
Next was to go check on all the plants, the Holly bush, peach tree and Hazelnut bushes are doing good. These are all down by the barn. Next are the plants up by the big Lob lolly pines, there is one hosta, 1 rhubarb and 9 phlox plants. The hosta and rhubarb are alive but only 5 phlox are still alive. The asparagus that is growing there is coming up so I pulled all the grass that is around it.
The two crab apples that we planted earlier are doing well as you can see from the pictures. 
The columbine and violets we planted are also doing well.
The 15 azaleas and the one red bud look good, also in the same area I planted 1 hydrangea and it has new growth on it so it is doing good. All the trees from the Arbor Day Foundation look to be dead, but that is what I thought about the ones last year and found 2 of them alive this year. All but one of the phlox we planted down around the ponds are alive.
The 15 azaleas and the one red bud look good, also in the same area I planted 1 hydrangea and it has new growth on it so it is doing good. All the trees from the Arbor Day Foundation look to be dead, but that is what I thought about the ones last year and found 2 of them alive this year. All but one of the phlox we planted down around the ponds are alive.
The two apple trees are also doing good.
Here also is a picture of the clump white birch trees.
Since we don't have any cattle on the property now the small oak trees and pines are having a chance to grow. Here is a picture of the pines and look at all the new growth on them.
Here also are two pictures of oak trees, the first is one tree with like 4 small limbs coming off the stump.
What I need to do to cut 3 of those off and let the one left grow. In the other picture you can see how many of these in this one area I need to do that two.
I down loaded the one game camera and when I was leaving the area when the camera is I noticed this trail leading to/from the area. Here are two pictures of this. In the one you can see how much the grass is bent down.
I also finally got the other camera set up down by the south pond. Hopefully we will get some good pictures from it. The three legged doe is back, was glad to see that.
I did fish a little bit, caught some bluegill and one small bass.
