Around the Farm (No Posts!)

It’s been damn busy around here for the last couple of days and tomorrow is shot finishing up on work I started today.

I set out Wednesday AM to the bank and the road between my place and the ‘real road’ was blocked by a downed tree. There’s maybe 10 cars a day that use the road and everyone knows that if you backtrack there are two other ways to get out of this rural area. All ten of those cars also know that if they leave the tree in the road long enough someone else will clear it.

So I backtracked, detoured, did the bank thingy and returned about 2 hours later and the tree is still down. I guess it was my turn to be that someone else..

So I detoured again and worked my way around to my place gathered the chainsaw and some strapping and headed back out to clear the road. Job done. Wednesday morning gone.

Wednesday PM I pulled the last of the jalapeno’s, 5 more pints worth, and canned them and since I had the canner out and working I put up two types of ‘triple berry’ jam. One was strawberry, raspberry, and blueberry, and the other was strawberry, raspberry and blackberry. I was able to put up 18 half pint jars. Man that stuff is good. Anyway, Wednesday PM was shot. Come to think of it, between football (Roll Tide) and putting the canner to work on more jams, this coming Saturday looks like it’s toast as well.

Today I decided that the yard work I need to get to (we’ve had 4 days of wet weather) could wait until I put the boat into the water and relaxed some. I farted around on the bottom reaches of the Elk River and followed it out to the Tennessee River (Wheeler Reservoir) and back up to the launch point. Thursday morning…..gone.

This afternoon I powered up the zero turn and got about half of the weeds mowed before the light began to dim. PM gone.

I’m no psychic, but I can see what my Friday looks like: mowers and trimmers. Any open time I can manage to create will be spent on harvesting seeds from what remains of my garden.

All of this, dear reader, is my long winded explanation of why (as the Soup Nazi would say) NO POSTS FOR YOU !

Y’all enjoy the balance of the week and I’ll see you again on Sunday or Monday.

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