July 21st visit

Went to the farm today, got there and first thing was to check and fill the batteries on Lois's golf cart, it was a little low so it was a good thing I checked it. Next was to hook up the battery charger to Jessie the pickup, I am going to leave it on her all day as the battery was dead when I left last week. See if that helps. I forgot the camera again today so there won't be any pictures and since it has only been a week since I downloaded the game cameras I won't do that. Give another week.
Today's visit is to mow and brush hog. I need to get the area down in fern valley mowed as the black berry bushes are trying to take over down there. On the way there I stopped to mow some around the big lob lolly pines. I started mowing down through them and wanted to make sure I didn't mow any of the flowering trees that we worked on in that area. We had marked them so we won't cut or mow them down. As I was going by one I noticed that one had fruit on it. I don't know if they were peaches or apricots. I got to looking and they were loaded with fruit. No I didn't take the time to pull any off will do that the next time we are there. We have about ten or twelve of these trees. As I was mowing further in this area I notice a box turtle trying to get away from the tractor, he at least had enough sense to head deeper into the timber. I mowed a little while here and then headed down into fern valley, I had just gotten down into it and looked to my left and saw a fawn moving into the timber, he looked like he wasn't very old as he was very wobbly. Started mowing, had about half of it done when I noticed another box turtle trying to get into the timber and he made it just fine. Once I finished down there I decided to drive around to make sure I had as much of the black berry bushes mowed as possible and saw a nice buck heading into the timber, he looked like he is going to have a nice rack. It looked like at least 6 points and it looked wide. The bucks are just starting to grow their antlers and the antlers are still covered in velvet. I then went to an area I had mowed last year that was needing it again. I had just enter this area and saw another fawn walk out the other end of it. He was a little older that the one I saw earlier.
I got several areas mowed before it started raining about 2 in the afternoon. I didn't see anything else to tell about, did find another big oak tree that had split and half of it had fallen. At least this one is not in an area that I will have to hurry to clean up.
Hopefully I will remember the camera the next time. There are some thing I want to take pictures of and post here for all to see.
Until then I hope you enjoy the stories.