Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Baymule]

You have a beautiful view. I totally get you on the heat. We need a melting, sweaty smiley.

 

[Mike CHS]

Sheep are going to be our main livestock but we are planning on getting at least a couple of dairy goats also. I've been working on the goat pen more than the sheep enclosure since Southern By Choice told me they need some prime land with lots of good eats.

 

[Latestarter]

Just put them near any young trees or decorative shrubs/bushes/flowers/gardens that you wish to keep, and they'll be quite happy

 

[Mike CHS]

We are working ground for another dozen fruit trees/bushes so I'm trying to make sure there is a lot of things to see destroyed.

 

[Mike CHS]

Mr. Murphy is alive and well. I was telling Teresa yesterday how good our old Husqvarna tiller is doing on getting our rocky ground worked up for planting and erosion fixes. We went up to Columbia which is about 30 miles away and got a load of sod to put on some of our hills. We got home around1:00 in the afternoon and we got everything we needed to till and level the sides adjacent to a retaining wall we put in. The tiller went about 2' and the transmission locked up. It's beyond my ability to repair and even if it's repair is more or less than what it is worth, it won't get into the shop for several days. In the meantime there is a load of sod baking in the sun so we decided to go into town and buy a new tiller. It seems that everything we have that is showing some age is trying to die on us. Teresa called everyone around and evidently nobody refills their inventory after the spring rush and it took a bunch of phone time but she found a Husqvarna rear tine that we picked up.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Ugh! Isn't that the way it always goes... Sorry about the tiller - but congrats on the new tiller!

 

[Ferguson K]

Isn't that just luck!

Sorry about it though. Wishing you the best on all this heat.

 

[Latestarter]

Always seems to be the way it works... Sorry for the extra expense, but grats on the new tiller and grassy yard areas.

 

[Baymule]

It sucks that your old tiller locked up, especially as you have sod waiting to be planted. At least you were able to find another one.

 

[Mike CHS]

That older tiller sat in the shed for almost three years and it is getting aged but still starts on the first pull. The new one did good and we got all of the sod down and even got a new bed outlined with the sod and Teresa want to pick up some flowers this weekend for some color there.

We had a dump truck full of stone and one with a load of topsoil delivered this afternoon so we can hopefully look like we are not in a construction zone before too long.