Made it down to 45 degrees at the AG research center 10 miles away but they’re in a valley and always get colder. I’m sure it made it down to 50 here. Highs in the 70s for my three days off and cool mornings. Chiggers and ticks will be moving slow.
Good time to clean up the property of downed branches and do some burning. Calm or light wind all three days so it’s a good time to rake a firebreak against the wooded property next to me and burn all the dicey areas. That’s my North line and wind today starts calm and becomes out of the North by afternoon. Perfect and N wind is rare. Still humid, 100% right now, so it’s not red flag weather by any means. It’s probably a 50 x 400 foot area and wind will be out of the South after today. Already hit 60 so I better get out there now.
Also good weather for putting temporary sides on the trailer, loading it with 10+ years of non burnable trash and making that dump run. Non burnable for me includes any plastic thicker/harder than plastic bags or film that some people around here would burn.
Some mowing of course.
Gonna wait on narrowing the tractor front rims until next week or the week after when I don’t have plans that include using it. I’ll want to prime and paint the inside of the rims and allow it to cure for a while, probably a week.
About time to open the windows for the day.
NWS predicts 47° F for us tonight, a drop of 32° from right now. Winds go calm this evening, so, it’s all dry (for August!) air. Below 50 degrees - I’m NOT going to open up windows tonight! Maybe mid-morning tomorrow...
We caught a large opossum in the live-trap last night. Should I cook him for the chickens or take him to the wildlife reserve? I can rationalize: If the latter, I can go by the river and pick up a couple buckets of river sand...