Wednesday August 6 2008

All Three Machines Working

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Our Field All Mowed

Baler and Tractor that Picks Up Bales

Pulling Trailer That Hauls the Bales


Raking

Mowed

Doc Jerry and Marilyn came last night and finished up raking baling and hauling off the bales to their nearby stacks. I'm curious how many tons they got. The hay looked good, thicker and taller than it has for many years. Joe said it is the best its been for years. Of course, the high end near the gate couldn't be mowed. There hasn't been enough water to irrigate it there, so we've sacrificed it to irrigate the lower end. It grows the best crop anyway. So now the job is finished. I bet with their nice equipment that they didn't even spend 24 hours here. Joe used to take two weeks with his one-man job.

Edis taking some plants home

Edis and I went out after breakfast and dug her up some of the orphan plants for the yard at their new house. Her car is really small, a tiny Honda which gets about 30 mpg, so she didn't have a lot of room to take much. She showed me photos yesterday of the house, and they really have a nice place. The yard is already nicely landscaped, but the is room for a few more kind of plants. She took some iris - two kinds, sedum, cranesbills, and raspberries. We found 3 baby heirloom columbine, so hope those go for her.

Bonnie arrived to do more cleaning about 8:30. I hadn't been up for long. She brought us really tasty tomatoes, cucumbers and zucchini from her greenhouse. We had some of them for lunch. Bonnie got the last two bedrooms nearly done. The yellow one she will finish up tomorrow and start on the studio. She says there are a few places she wants to go back to and then she should be finished. I asked Edis if she could see Bonnie's wings.

So Edis, Barbara and Lucy started home a little before 11. They have an 8 hour drive without any stops, so it will be a long day for them. Barbara made them a picnic lunch to take while we worked in the yard.

Thank you for coming to visit, Edis. And Thank You for all the help you gave while you were here. And especially Thank You for the two CDs of your music and work at the NPR radio station.

After they left I went back out and got the rest of the dead canes out of the raspberry bushes. We had commented that something has been eating the leaves off a lot of raspberries, and I found a lot of very large grasshoppers out there. We may need to call the weed and pest control and tell them - remember when we had the grasshopper plague some years back. I've been noticing that when I walk there are a lot of grasshoppers again.

Its nice again today, although very breezy, which makes it not too hot. Just very pleasant. Mostly cloudy.