Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

So will you pay to repair the old tiller and maybe keep it as a backup? Sell it yard sale style? Maybe CL? You may get away from looking like a consturction zone, but there will always be more waiting for you to do... It's never ending, and glad it's that way Keeps me occupied and out of trouble.

We do like to stay busy but the hardest thing here was to get used to the heat. My job in Charleston was in an equipment lab that was kept at 68 degrees. Teresa is happy that I'm getting used to the temperature change and I no longer keep the house at 70 degrees. I've graduated to 78 during the day but still drop it down at night.

I called the Co-op and they will come out and pick it up to check it out. They are good to work with and don't charge anything to check and make sure it is worth fixing. They only charge $30 total to pick it up and bring it back so the convenience is worth the $30.

The old one is a commercial tiller and is a lot bigger.

At least you will have a yard! Mine is still sugar sand. AKA Texas Snow!

We work outside and come soaking wet to our knees. We keep the daytime temp at 78 and drop it to 72 at night. When you are wet, it doesn't take much to cool you off. LOL

We had to put a rack outside to dry off my clothes before bringing them in.

I need to break out the chainsaw tomorrow. My bradford pear tree isn't giving in easily and my little tractor can't push it over.

Ahhh for the joys of having a mud room... So sweet to be able to come in, strip down, go straight to the rain locker (shower) and leave most of the nastiness right there at the washer and dryer. Alternatively, having a nice couple acre size pond to just go dive in to wouldn't be half bad either

Those sweaty, wet summer clothes can go stinky in a hurry. I dump vinegar in the bleach and in the fabric softener dispensers in the washing machine. It kills the stink. Nothing worse than starting to sweat and all the previous sweaty, hot days funky stink coming back to life in your clothes. PHEW!

Vinegar seems to be the wonder liquid for more than just cooking.

I twisted my back last week so haven't been very productive. Teresa is still doing the jigsaw puzzle of our household goods and most of what I did last week was using our little tractor. I have been moving a lot of dirt trying to fill in the trench that formed from settling soil where we dug our water line last year. Most of it is on the far end of the farm on one of the steeper hills that keep trying to kill me when I'm mowing so I'm trying to fix some of the bad angles.

We leveled off an area adjacent to our retaining wall that will eventually be a grape arbor but I had some watermelon, squash and cantaloupe that needed to be planted so we put them in the bed just to make use of it.

I saw some seepage from our septic last week and we found that a broken clean-out had separated from the line going to the field. I don't do sewage so called in help. They brought in a machine to dig it up and made short work of it.

We still have a dry pond that has been getting full of construction debris and we got him to move that to another spot where it will get buried. I didn't ask him to but on his way to load up his machine he noticed the stump where I have been digging around it for several hours and he pushed it over for me. I'll post a picture of the stump by my little tractor to show how big it is.

I had to laugh after seeing how big it is because I had tried to push it over several times and I swear I heard laughter coming from the roots.

The little maple trees along the drive in the last picture were brought from South Carolina with us - They were started from seed at our SC home.

Beautiful place Mike. What HP is your Kubota? Mine is a 23HP and her name is Marigold. don't you just LOVE your tractor??

I haven't given her a name but it will be a female name if and when I come up with one since I can't imagine doing what we have done without her and that fits my lady.

This one is a 32HP