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Saturday eve. Got the peonies dug this morning and broke off some of the tubers... They went deep. Oh well, maybe they will grow and there will be some for a new person there. Have to figure out where to put them here, the one place I wanted to put them, there are rocks down not very far so have to change. Might put them along the front porch for the winter/next year until I get more of the yard work done. Still have not gotten the irises or the daylily's in that I dug yesterday. Hopefully tomorrow. It is hard on the knees, I can't really push down on the shovel very hard to get the holes dug.....
Also HAVE to go up and check out the rest of the fruit trees so that I have a count and can start marking the holes.....
Still haven't gotten a price on the boxwood removal/yard cleanup stuff. Got another guy I am going to call and see what he has to say. I really want to get this done... get the oil tank reset and all so I can get the furnace guy here too. It was down to 43 last night.... I want heat in this house when I am here...🥶
Wound up raking hay this afternoon for about 3 1/2 hours. It was sunny and not quite as breezy. DS tedded out the one field that I had started raking and that I texted him that it was too green. It was a lot better late this afternoon. The other 3 smaller fields I did, one was okay, the other 2 were quite green. They should have been tedded out too. I thought he was going to do all them. So tomorrow I will go and turn over the 2 smaller fields and hope that they will dry more. I think he is going to roll it but there is quite a bit of hay.
He did come by and get the washing machine faucet cutoffs on and I do have water.....
Didn't do anything with the heater panels, today. It is supposed to warm up more after the front comes through on Sunday eve/Monday morning....down to less than 20% passing shower, I expect that he will mow more hay tomorrow as it is supposed to be nice through Thursday. Really want to get done with hay for the year. Still have 2 big fields of orchard grass to do.... 10 ac and 13 ac.....They will be mostly sq bales for sale.... and our use. Good late cuttings. I wish I was closer to @rachels.haven , to be able to sell her some. Even some of this grass hay looks real nice. Got to get some into the barn for the calves this winter, up at the nurse cow field.
Still haven't taken the heifers up to the dairy.....
Corn chopping is coming up soon. I am ready for the fall work to get wrapped up.
I saw the neatest thing this eve at the place I was raking hay. The woman who owns it, her husband was killed in that freak jousting accident a year ago.... was using something called a nut roller or nut gatherer.... it is like a sphere made out of metal ... lots of springy like wires so to speak... and as you roll it across it picks up the walnuts.... It is really neat. Reminds me of a bingo thing that they turn and then get the number out of, sorta..... Going to see if our Lowe's has them in stock.... says they carry them... I can get them off the internet cheaper... but shipping won't get them here before mid Nov.... from china.... and I want to be able to pick up the walnuts now.... Really really neat.....Made short work of gathering them, just pull the wires apart a bit to empty into a bucket or whatever....There are 2 large walnut trees here, plus some across the road just falling all over.... be a good winter project to do (in my spare time) Sure don't want to try to pick them up by hand.... Was considering the sweeper, don't know if it would get them; ; but this is so simple to use....I am going to go down there in the morning to see if they have them.
So tomorrow I will rake the hay in the lots in the big subdivision that we still make... use the tractor with the big wheel rake.... I used the Farmall H today for the little fields as it is so much easier to maneuver.... sure hope that he cuts some of the good orchard grass so that we can get that done while the equipment is here close.... then move the stuff 5 miles down the road to the other orchard grass field....
Past time to head down the hill.... want a shower and a bowl of soup....
Also HAVE to go up and check out the rest of the fruit trees so that I have a count and can start marking the holes.....
Still haven't gotten a price on the boxwood removal/yard cleanup stuff. Got another guy I am going to call and see what he has to say. I really want to get this done... get the oil tank reset and all so I can get the furnace guy here too. It was down to 43 last night.... I want heat in this house when I am here...🥶
Wound up raking hay this afternoon for about 3 1/2 hours. It was sunny and not quite as breezy. DS tedded out the one field that I had started raking and that I texted him that it was too green. It was a lot better late this afternoon. The other 3 smaller fields I did, one was okay, the other 2 were quite green. They should have been tedded out too. I thought he was going to do all them. So tomorrow I will go and turn over the 2 smaller fields and hope that they will dry more. I think he is going to roll it but there is quite a bit of hay.
He did come by and get the washing machine faucet cutoffs on and I do have water.....
Didn't do anything with the heater panels, today. It is supposed to warm up more after the front comes through on Sunday eve/Monday morning....down to less than 20% passing shower, I expect that he will mow more hay tomorrow as it is supposed to be nice through Thursday. Really want to get done with hay for the year. Still have 2 big fields of orchard grass to do.... 10 ac and 13 ac.....They will be mostly sq bales for sale.... and our use. Good late cuttings. I wish I was closer to @rachels.haven , to be able to sell her some. Even some of this grass hay looks real nice. Got to get some into the barn for the calves this winter, up at the nurse cow field.
Still haven't taken the heifers up to the dairy.....
Corn chopping is coming up soon. I am ready for the fall work to get wrapped up.
I saw the neatest thing this eve at the place I was raking hay. The woman who owns it, her husband was killed in that freak jousting accident a year ago.... was using something called a nut roller or nut gatherer.... it is like a sphere made out of metal ... lots of springy like wires so to speak... and as you roll it across it picks up the walnuts.... It is really neat. Reminds me of a bingo thing that they turn and then get the number out of, sorta..... Going to see if our Lowe's has them in stock.... says they carry them... I can get them off the internet cheaper... but shipping won't get them here before mid Nov.... from china.... and I want to be able to pick up the walnuts now.... Really really neat.....Made short work of gathering them, just pull the wires apart a bit to empty into a bucket or whatever....There are 2 large walnut trees here, plus some across the road just falling all over.... be a good winter project to do (in my spare time) Sure don't want to try to pick them up by hand.... Was considering the sweeper, don't know if it would get them; ; but this is so simple to use....I am going to go down there in the morning to see if they have them.
So tomorrow I will rake the hay in the lots in the big subdivision that we still make... use the tractor with the big wheel rake.... I used the Farmall H today for the little fields as it is so much easier to maneuver.... sure hope that he cuts some of the good orchard grass so that we can get that done while the equipment is here close.... then move the stuff 5 miles down the road to the other orchard grass field....
Past time to head down the hill.... want a shower and a bowl of soup....