Wow our weekend went by fast for us but we managed to get most of the things on our "to do" list done. I'm starting to lose it...I can't recall what we did on Tuesday. So I guess onto the rest of the week.
My view on Colonel Mustard.
Tuff checking in on me. He would come and do laps with me every so often.
I picked up a new skill this week that I'm stoked about. I learned how to engage the PTO on the tractor so now I can mow the pasture. It takes some caressing here and there of Colonel Mustard (our tractor) to get the brush hog going but I believe we've figured it out now. It took a few hours one day and an hour or so the next to get most of it mowed, I still have one patch to do but I'm pretty proud of myself. While I did that the hubby was on wood cutting duty.
We had his mom come over and watch the kiddo since we had to do some chores that took focus. But of course since we had a plan of divide and conquer something had to go wrong. This time it was the chainsaws...darn things didn't want to work. The big manly saw needed a new spark plug which we didn't have on hand. We bought an extra one this time for our next crisis. The smaller saw needed some tinkering done to it. Mr. Homestead was on top of it and now they are back in service.
It may sound weird but I enjoyed my time on old Colonel Mustard (that's what she said). It made me feel like I was really accomplishing something big. I did have one frightening experience though. It happened on the second day...I was out there minding my own business, staring off into space every once in a while when I saw something slither away. Let me tell you I'm pretty scared of snakes even worms freak me out. Last year we were walking in the tall pasture, I was following the hubby out to one of our ponds and he says "snake". I turned around and bolted back to the house.
So I see something slither and I look again and I'm like "it's ok it's a lizard". A third look at it and I'm like " nope it doesn't have legs". I was so creeped out luckily I wasn't walking around when I saw it. From then on everytime the tall grass touched me I jumped a bit.
The drip system is finally finished and while I was working on the pasture the hubby harvested the garlic. The only thing we didn't get to was the potatoes, I guess we'll do it this week. I'm so excited for our garlic since I just ran out and now I don't have to buy any. We laid it out on trays under our back patio for it to cure. I better go get ready now so we can get outside before it gets too hot.
Lots and lots of garlic.
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