It has been a few days since there was a post on this blog. We have been waterlogged and I just couldn't bring up enough creative energy to blog, but today the skies finally cleared. We went into town to stock up on chicken and dog foods and to get lunch. It was still somewhat overcast, but no real rain expected. When we got home, the neighbor who hays for us for the bulk of our hay was here and they got the upper parts of the yard mowed and turned in preparation for baling it tomorrow. The big hayfield, the lowest part of our land is still too wet, but hopefully will be dry enough for haying this weekend. We hope this will reduce the tick load, they have been terrible this spring.
Since I planted the orchard and put electric fence around it, the area that houses the chicken coop, chicken tractor, garden, compost and orchard has gotten very difficult to maintain. The tractor doesn't turn well enough with the brush hog attached to mow in there without taking out chicken pens or electric fence wire posts, so it tends to get very, very tall. Today I ended up with several ticks just going over to feed and water the chickens, so I tackled the area that is more than 100 feet by 100 feet square with the huge weed whacker and while I had it out, I cleared a 7 foot band around the house so I can mow tomorrow with the tractor. A busy, tiring day, but productive.
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