Yesterday morning we got outside early to work in the garden. It was actually not too bad out that early in the morning - 71° with about 65% humidity. The humidity is what kills me every time.
DH used the battery lawnmower to cut the weeds, while I dug up Bahaia grass
I HATE BAHAIA!! Those roots are so tough, the Bahaia would come up right through the deep mulch. So it has to be removed before I can put the deep mulch down. I also had to dig up a patch of what I call monkey grass. It has underground runners that would continue growing under the mulch. So those have to be dug up as well. We also have a lot of spurge. I think that will be OK to leave under the mulch. It really reproduces by seed, so shouldn’t be a problem.
After about an hour and a half, of working we were in the sun, and the heat was really gertting to us. That makes it hard to work so we took a water break and decided to get the mowers out so each of us could mow part of the property. It was getting kind of rough looking. interesting thing… The county mows along the sides of the gravel roads - maybe twice a year. But they never mow the ditch in front of our house.
So it was looking pretty bad with the weeds, Chinese privet, and the tall grass. Chinese privet is another one of those things that can get out of hand if you don’t keep it mowed down. So I mowed that too. It looks a LOT better now!!!
Anyway, the yard is looking really good now. We were exhausted when we were finished, but happy with the outcome. We even went back behind the goat pasture and mowed some of that. The rest will have to wait though — there are a lot of dead branches that need to be picked up and put in the burn pile. There is also a dead tree that came down last year. That needs to be cut up and added to the burn pile before we can mow directly behind the goat pasture.
So last night, DH went to close the front gate before coming in after feeding the animals late. I was on the phone with goatgirl and he came in and told me to call the neighbor, because we had cows in our front yard!
Now that something you don’t see you every day!
So I went out on the front porch and counted them. We had TWENTY cows in our front yard!
DH started walking towards them, and they all just turned around and left. While I was on the phone with our neighbor, who just happens to be in California right now, DH said the cows were walking down the road. About 20 minutes later, we had farm hands herding the cows down the road towards the pasture gate. I haven’t looked today, but I suspect the fence was down somewhere.
This is a photo that our security camera took.
So we have to put wedges under the trays and use a builder’s level to make sure the trays are level. We used about 1-1/2 gallons so far and have about the same amount in jars in the refrigerator. So, we actually got more like three gallons of juice. But HEY, that‘s nothing to sneeze at! Right? 
