February 14, 2016 Tractor Day #3

We spent eight hours running a skid steer loader around doing destruction

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February 10, 2016

Ann and I went out to the Farm this afternoon to cut some fallen trees off the back fence. We had removed the support from some of the trees outside the fence when we removed the trees inside the fence, so the winter brought them down. After an hour of making another pile of burnable debris, we had to trail-blaze through the berries to try and get the remainder down. But by the time I got us two-hundred feet along the back fence, my arms were so tired out we had to give up.

This gave us a few extra hours with nothing to do so we decided to run by the Kabota dealer to find out what other implements of destruction we could rent the next time we had the money. The guy made us an offer we couldn't refuse. So Saturday is going to be our third tractor day.

We are so excited.

February 9, 2016

I planted 96 Mondo grasses, three hundred more to go. . .

February 8, 2016

We we fortunate enough to have done the paperwork, prior to Collette's passing, so that the title to the Farm will transfer into our name and we can begin in earnest. We had the help of the County's wonderful counter help (I think nearly every counter in every building) so eventually we found the right combination of paper and person.

I know, not much of a post. But it is a pretty big one for us.

February 7, 2016 Puppy Update

The puppies are doing very well, getting big, making progress. Everyone is larger:

• Tootsie Roll is 5.3 pounds and still loves to wander
• Scotch Mallow is still the biggest at 5.7 pounds
• Sugar Baby is slipping behind and only weighs 4.1 pounds
• Junior Mint is the cuddliest at 5.3 pounds
• Milk Dud is a wonderfully aggressive male at 5.1 pounds
• Skittles is right at 5 pounds

Everyone got to experience the outside world today. . .

And this is just a good picture.