mowathon

Our power went out last night, incidentally.
Happy (or perhaps not) to have a cell phone as I would have had no other way to set an alarm for this morning. That being said I did wake up during the night to a restoration of power, but it was mad chilly in the room and there's NO way I was going to walk the 2+ feet to the clock to set it and its alarm. Gotta be kiddin. Anyway, thanks cell phone.

Buttered raisin toast, coffee and an apple was breakfast for me.

E and I first cleared all things from the W, Y and Z field areas in prep for mowing/weed whacking. She rocked the rotary mower and I the weed whacker. Happy to have done so as I enjoy detailing. I worked my way underneath the entire length of fencing in W.

D stopped by just before break and suggested that the blades of the rotary mower be either sharpened or replaced. After break, he and E set it up for inspection, removal of blades, etc. After a failed attempt to unscrew the nuts that held the blades, D gave up and took the assembly to a local shop that not only got the nuts undone, but had the proper model in stock. Eznuff

I took the riding mower to W and detailed the perimeter, inside and out. Finishing Y and Z area as well before lunch.

Oooooo, lunch was leftover pizza. Mad good cold pizza.

Afterwards I mowed the perimeter of the upper fields, in front of the chicken coop, all around the root cellar and the small hill behind the compost piles. Speaking of which, E turned 4 separate compost piles with the front end loader today. She also weed whacked the perimeter of Y/Z and the upper fields. Nice one.

The bench got my attention for an hour or so after work. Planing one of the broad sides with the adze.

Today's little respite from harvesting will not carry into tomorrow. We've got much to start harvesting for Saturday.

No worries though. I think I got my fill (maybe not) of groundskeeping for a "little" while longer.

dig