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Thank you! That’s almost exactly how much time it took me when I divide it by 4. We had a basketball game to get to, so that had me watching the clock pretty close. I zip tied the cages to the t posts, so I can remove them quickly, if it gets dry again and I need to weed eat and apply mulch the...

Yeah, Caney boys lost last night to Burlington, and they should have won. Burlington handled the pressure of the moment much better.

Tree planting day with our Blue Hill trees. I’ve gotta say, you guys who plant these a dozen plus at a time have my admiration! Usually Dawna helps, but I was solo today. Here’s a few pics. I can’t tell you how nice it was to not have to struggle to get the holes dug in dry dirt. I even had...

One question crew, would all of you recommend pruning after getting the trees in the ground? I’m assuming they will still be dormant. I plan to prune our established trees tomorrow and also gather some pear scions for callery pear grafting next month; so I’ll have the necessary tools with me.

I got our blue hill order today. 4 trees will be going in the ground tomorrow. I don’t have any granular phosphorus and potassium fertilizer to add to the soil. I thought about adding some wood ash, which is high in both, but I don’t want to take a chance of harming the trees. So, I’ll probably...

No, she had/has some opportunity to play some small time college volleyball, but nothing like full ride type of thing. She's not wanting to pursue it. She and her little sis will be running track I believe.

Going to pick up a new to us New Holland swather/conditioner tomorrow. An ag lime pile has been awaiting the spreader for a week now in the edge of our barnyard. This rain will put that off a while longer, but I’m not complaining. We were going to plant spring oats, and then terminate them to...

We were setting at 2.5 yesterday morning and got quite a bit more through the day. We were in Burlington last night for substate basketball, our oldest played her last game. :( They had the same record and Burlington got home court with a coin flip, I’m convinced our girls would have won at...

What school do you teach at again? I was trying remember Friday night. I was talking to a parent from Erie at the ballgame, they went to 4 day school weeks and I was going to bring up your school.

We travel a ways at times. The toughest drive after dark is either Bluestem or Eureka.

Let’s see here, Douglas maybe? They kind of run together after a while. 😂 Girls basketball.

We’re in a much better place than cat at the moment. I drove through his neighborhood (60-70 miles to the west) a couple weeks ago for a ballgame, and was astounded by the lack of water in the ponds out there still. This has been our best winter for precipitation in 5+ years. Hopefully the rains...

Took a walk on the Massey today. Cabin fever was hitting hard and the trees needed another coat of paint, the oaks were getting worked some by rabbits too, so we improved the screen situation. No antlers found but the snow and sun wasn’t helping matters any, so we didn’t look very long.

It’s what’s left of two alfalfa square bales.

The hay pile should last until this cold snap passes, they’ve been hitting it really hard the last couple of days. The hay getting deer in close for longer periods of time has shown me just how much the deer are still after the acorns left in the background.