The first thing on the agenda was to go into Greenfield and get fuel for the tractor and Jessie the pickup truck. Once back with the fuel I filled up Jessie and then got the little portable air compressor out and aired up the tires her tires. They needed it as each was down around 15 psi and they needed to be up around 40 psi.
My plan on going to the farm was to cut up the cedar tree that had fallen sometime back. With some excellent help from my partner in life we made short work of the cedar tree. We took all the limbs from the tree and piled them up to create a shelter for small animals. The trunk of the tree was about 28' long, so I cut it up and saved two sections of it to be used later.
We then went on a tour of the property to see how thing were growing. Of course I forgot the camera again so there will not be any pictures. Rest assured with all the rain they have gotten the work I have done weed eating around the trees and plants has helped. Although they will need it again soon. Never ending work. The newly planted hostas and lillys were growing good, however the ivy we planted on the hillside by the dam did not look so good.
In planting the ivy last time I had noticed a grove of trees down below the dam, actually growing on the hillside next to the area where we planted the ivy. I told Lois that these looked like Paw-Paw trees. I looked at them, but could not see any Paw-Paws growing on them. I also did not have our tree book with us. So this trip I brought it along. Everything I looked at and read in the book points to these being Paw-Paw trees. We will see. The reason I tell this is that on my grandfathers farm there was, as they call them a Paw-Paw patch and I can remember eating them, they are a cross between a banana and eating custard. The other thing is wild animals love to eat them.
All the plants look good, the crab apple trees are getting nibbled on by the deer. I think I will get some human hair and spread it around these trees to see if I can keep the deer away from them for a while to help them grow.
We then downloaded the pictures from the game cameras. There were 100 pictures on one and 32 on the other. We are seeing a lot of Indigo Buntings at the farm. They are so pretty. Here is a picture of one off the Internet.
I will have to learn more about these birds and if they will come to a bird feeder. That may be a project to set up a bird feeder with a gamera on it.
When we were getting ready to cut up the tree we heard what we thought was some turkeys talking to each other up towards the loblolly pines. They were doing a lot of calling to each other. It is the first time we had heard them in a while. Well Lois did see them later on going through the corn field next to us. She said you would see them poking their head up over the corn.
I will be posting some of the game camera pictures later in the week on the other blog site.
We then fired up Jessie and took her for a ride down the road. She seemed to like the Tennessee hills and curves. This is the first time we have driven her out on the road. I do believe we heard her yell yahoo a couple of times.
See ya all next time.
