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Posted on Saturday, March 03, 2018
Aaron Tippin & Sammy Kershaw Concert
Stacey was not having a good day, but we were determined to take her to
see Aaron Tippin & Sammy Kershaw. We had purchased the tickets a couple
months in advance and she enjoys going to the Plaza Theatre. We tried to
get her straightened up, but it didn't happen. Linda and I each held
onto Stacey's hands and helped her walk into the Plaza just before the
concert started. Aaron and Sammy took turns performing their hit songs
for about an hour and a half.
The
crowd was rowdy and shouted a lot of things towards the artists. Sammy
told a few stories between songs, but Aaron just sang. It wasn't the
best concert we had seen at the Plaza but it was fairly good. Leading
Stacey out in the middle of the crowd trying to leave was difficult, but
we made it and Stacey said she had a good time.
Posted on Saturday, March 31, 2018
Tiller for Strawberries at Easter
Early in March I had ordered, from Tractor Supply Co, a 48" tiller to
use behind the New Holland 55 tractor. It came to the Columbia store and
we picked it up on the 23rd using the lawn mowing trailer behind the red
truck. Back at the farm, I unloaded the tiller with the scoop on the
tractor and set it down in the pole barn. Some assembly was required
along with servicing the unit with oil and grease before use.
It
rained a lot while I was working in the pole barn on the tiller, but the
creek didn't get out of the banks during the day. The next morning I did
have some debris in the fields where the creek had risen during the
night. I went to work removing the debris early, before the rain had
stopped, being careful not to make tire ruts in the fields. That way,
the debris I missed would be washed down into the fields by the rain
almost like it never happened.
In
a few days time, the ground had dried enough. so I was ablt to till 3
rows next to our old strawberry patches and 5 more rows in the area
where the old house trailer used to set. We left about 5' between the
rows of strawberrys for grass walkways.
Saturday
morning, Brent's family came over and around noon we planted 200
strawberry plants. Brent & I set the stakes for the twine string that
had marks on it for the plant spacing. Then we made the holes for the
plants with Julie and Pauline planting as Linda & Stacey separated the
plants and handed each one to them. Kyle did the stepping and fetching
for all of us. I think we had the planting completed in about an hour.
We
also had a ham dinner with pies and other good stuff. Oh, and Julie &
Kyle enjoyed an Egg Hunt with candy and loose change inside plastic eggs.
