Yesterday Ann called the Burn Permit hotline and they had opened agricultural burning, so out to the Farm we went.
We had a burn pile the size of a school bus that had been building up since they burn ban went into effect in early Summer. But we are good at building fires, so fifteen minutes into the burn we had a fire twenty feet high. High enough that we had to hook up hoses and water down some trees that were a bit close. But all ended well and the fire burnt down to a manageable level fairly quick. Lucky it did too. A local fire department fellow drove by about then and we had a nice talk.
I raked up a bunch of the loose bits of trash between the new driveway and the we had, for the first time, a pretty clean front end. This only took two years, so there you go.
Ann started in pruning a plum tree as I finished up the raking. Then we had lunch under a beautiful sixty-five degree sunny blue sky. Following lunch Ann we back to pruning. I must say the she has never shown much interest in working with trees, so this was a good thing to see. We worked the tree together as the burn pile shrunk by half, then loaded the trimmings onto the burn. For the rest of the day Ann trimmed berries off of the trees and cut suckers. It was a lot of work, and the east side of the Farm looks nice.
As for me, I began loading herbicide into my backpack sprayer and began spraying berries. Fifteen gallons later I had sprayed every Blackberry vine, ivy, Oregon Cucumber, and odd vine looking thing on the place, both inside and outside of the fence.
By four in the afternoon we had to stop work. But the Farm is about ready for tilling.
It was a good day.
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