The rain blew away and I took advantage. Spent most of Saturday and most of Sunday moving dirt.
I found my phone line with the loader bucket yesterday while I was cleaning out the core cut. It was 4’ up the backside of the dam 6” below the surface. I had locates done prior to cutting the dam and that’s not where it was flagged. This is the 2nd time the phone line has been cut since we built the house. It was flagged wrong the first time too. I can splice in a new piece of wire myself, but there’s no use doing that until we repack the core.
Dad and I had intended to park the mower and put the moldboard plow on the big tractor yesterday, but he found a thorn on the last mowing job and flattened a front tire, so instead of doing that we set one corner and two brace posts for the fence I’m putting across the back pasture. That’s about all of that business either of us wants in one day. Those osage orange posts are heavy. Tractor tire will get fixed today and we’ll be ready to plow later in the week.
This has been the strangest year for tomatoes. Normally by the middle of September they’re pretty much junk, and most of them are, but the Better Boys and some Brandywines that I planted late are absolutely loaded with nice tomatoes.
Glad you were able to take advantage of the dry weather. Good news on the tomatoes, ours are pathetic.