Nephew and I hit the woods for about three hours yesterday and came home with one morel. I'm done looking unless we get some rain this week. The weather has been great for farming but no good at all for finding mushies.
I put the trash pump back in the pond to start draining it again. If the weather cooperates I'm going to get serious about finishing that project this summer. It's been so dry that I've had to water the green stuff that I planted in the garden. Now that I'm pumping water again I'll use that when I can. Pond water is about as good as it gets for irrigation purposes.
I picked up the new to me tiller on Saturday and put that bad boy right to work. It took a bit of fiddling to find the right combination of skid shoe height and top link adjustment. Once I got that figured out I was able to chew the dirt quite efficiently.
I made several passes over the planting beds and churned the ground as deep as the tiller would dig. Pops brought out one of his tractors with a back-blade and moved the soil over to fill in the furrow left by the moldboard plow. I'll make one more deep pass over the ground a little closer to planting time, then the real work will start.
After we finished the field work we did some tilling and grading in Pops' front yard to address an ongoing drainage problem, and cleaned up a huge pile of dead limbs that came down earlier in the spring.
I made one pass over the food plot in the back field. I'll hit this again when it's time to plant.
