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Bruce

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Wouldn't work, if I could see that, I could miss them now. Can't see them when the grass/weeds get high.
Maybe someone would like to drop a few thousand yards of good topsoil in the north field. Then I could spread it out over the ledge and all the low spots.
 

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Mr. @Bruce,

Just caught up on your journal. As I mentioned on @CntryBoy777's journal, sorry I missed out on helping you guys. And it would have been wonderful to meet you and the rest of the folks. I hope I will be able to do so soon.

Senile Texas Aggie
Are you back now? We have been missing you.
 

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He's baaaaack!

We're going to move the compost out from the fenced garden area because:
  • It is a pain in the winter
  • We want to put in another 4 (hopefully better than the ones that came with the house) blueberry bushes and the compost area is right where they would go.
  • We want to have a proper 3 bin rotation
So I moved the old fence boards that were piled where we want to put "official" compost bins rather than just one big pile. One trip with the tractor and pallet forks, dumped it in front of the barn with other scrap wood. I could have hiked it over a few boards at a time though the posts with concrete on the bottoms would have been a problem. That was step 1 in cleaning out the chicken coop (and boy does it need cleaning out). But first I have to have somewhere to put it.

Then I split a run (ie 1/3 cord) of the wood I blocked a week or so back and put it in a rack. Sure wish that new (and returned) fast splitter had worked. That relatively small amount of wood took 2 hours by myself. It would be faster with two but even then the splitter is really slow.

Exciting day tomorrow. Going to pay the last installment on the property taxes. And get:
  • Pool chemicals, their spring chemical sale starts tomorrow, any opportunity to save some money!
  • diesel for the tractor
  • non ethanol gas for the string trimmer and chain saws
  • regular gas for the garden tractor
And yes that is at 3 different stations. Thursday is $0.05 off in the city to the north and I get $0.05 off Shell anytime so the regular gas will come from there at probably $2.779. But they don't sell untainted gas and neither they nor the place that does carries off road diesel (less tax than on road diesel but still more than gasoline). I have 1/4 tank in the car so I'm not in need but since I'm there I guess I'll fill up. Currently about 800 miles on the tank I got in Skowhegan, ME (230 miles from home) back on April 20th when we were coming back from picking up DD1, 101 MPG, not complaining
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