Just so you know.
This morning felt great. Cool. Sunny. Oatmeal(y). Coffee(y).
Can one ask for much more? Perhaps a little, but largely.. no.
I've been meaning to get some shots of the winter squash field. The plants are yellowed and on their way out. The squashes themselves look amazing. We will be having a squash harvesting get together this Monday, Labor Day. The field will be picked clean and the squash will be laid out in the greenhouse to cure.
Anyway, hows about a little time lapse photography of the field?
The first pic was taken on June 30 and the last one this morning.
Our day in short??
Trimmed and bagged onions. 850 lbs.
Handweeded spinach.
Moved irrigation over to moisten soil in beet bed with a 20min. shower.
Lunch
Handweeded beets.
Harvested Summer Squash, Zucchini, Cucumbers
Cultivated our 3 beds of Brassicas in Y field. Mad rocky field. Tough to wheel hoe.
Back to the greenhouse for more onion(ing). 200 lbs.
Day over...
Then??????
Time to retrieve my log!! I geared up with leather gloves, a 30' chain w/ hooks, and my camera. Hopped on the New Holland, dropped the loader bucket and headed to the woods below W field. It wasn't difficult to find a path to the log through the woods as 1. It's not densely wooded, and 2. With only the potato spade on the back of the tractor (and no big bucket on front), I could squeeze into tighter spaces.
The process was rather straightforward, albeit a bit of a chore to execute. Get one end of the chain wrapped around the log about 1/4 of the way down the length, and the other end of the chain secured to the potato spade on the back. Gear down to the lowest possible "crawl" speed and pull the thing out of the woods. Yeah, there was a lot of starting and stopping. Ultimately I shortened the chain length enough so that the back hitch could actually lift the front lip of the log about a half inch above the ground. Much easier to control and much less of a furrow left behind. I'll leave you with pics of the process. Feel free to create your own captions.
When I got it close to the barn, I pulled the chain, rolled it onto (recently attached) forks and placed it where I'll be working on it.
Done and done. Aaand mad excited.
Shortly after, Gayle (one of our star volunteers) showed up thinking we were doing a work and wine party. Unfortunately we were not. She, her daughter and daughter's boyfriend decided to stay anyway, so we put them to work trimming and bagging the last of the onions. Yes, of course we worked with them. With onions done (615 lbs. YAAAAAAAYYY!! Thanks, guys!), the day was truly finished, except for one last thing.... a nice long shower.
What a day. Dig.
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