Rainy morning here - we should see sun later in the afternoon. I feel good today ..... with rain on the way for last night, I got outside yesterday for a couple of hours and raked/put away 10 39-gal bags of pine needles. The box was originally 18 bags .... I had 10 left, so I bagged 8 last year. I had one left over so I only used 7, but I did haul two trailer loads of pine needles & left them loose between the beds. I estimate a trailer load is a good 2 bags. When I calculate it all out, I should have enough pine needles for my mulching needs next year. It’s a similar feeling to the one I used to get when I got a big load of hay in the barn in Nov/Dec - I knew I had enough to feed the horses through the winter until the grass started growing in the spring. Granted, I’m not feeding pine needles to anything, but I’m “good” for next spring when it’s time to plant.
Did you see that my steer, ‘Weber’ is STILL grazing? We’ve never had grass so green & long this late in the season. It is terrific, is saving on hay costs for him & Ithaca and he is just loving being moved around the property and chowing down all day long. :)
We’d do the same with the mule, but he’s SO stubborn. You could be dragging him to a field of fresh CLOVER and he’d still fight you every step of the way! Anything and everything needs to be HIS idea, and HIS idea, only. He’s too smart for his own good, sometimes. ;)