While our northern friends are digging out of snow, we are finally digging out of the sand and silt that was deposited during the Labor Day Week End Flood of 2008. We put up with low yield and no yeild in two fields and decided to have the fields leveled. Neighbor Bob Helms is working with us. He's got the big toys to be able to dig in and turn this all over.
There is much Bermuda grass and wild flowers in the fields, but they are not level and it means we aren't efficiently using the irrigation water. We also would rather have things the horses and cattle can eat. White clover? Hmmm,
While Bob and Phil worked on the tractors, I picked rocks and moved logs and trees. We had a couple of huge (15 feet) limbs that fell. I rolled one out of the way but Phil used the Kubota to pull the other one to the edge of the field.
Diesel gas: $3.00 gallon. Seed: $200. Feeling like a real farmer in the middle of December? Priceless!
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