All The Trimmings

Pauline and Brent came over Friday evening with their dogs. Brent brought a small hard drive for the upstairs Dell and he installed it and we started the job of rebuilding Windows and reinstalling the programs. It will take several days of Windows Updates and tinkering before the PC is functioning as it was before the split second the power went off. Oh well, Brent said, "I have nothing else to do anyway!"
Saturday we ate breakfast of sausage biscuits that Linda fixed, then went out to trim some large bushes. I hooked up the Mule to the black trailer, Brent picked up the chainsaw and I filled the gas powered hedge trimmers with fuel. The bushes were in front of the little house by the highway. Pauline, Stacey and Linda joined us once we had the first bush trimmed. We had designated the girls as the pickup crew. They piled the branches and limbs on the trailer and we took them to the creek bank and drug the debris off the trailer. After several trips with the Mule and trailer, I took the tractor and used the bush hog to chop the debris into small pieces. The second bush was about twelve feet high and about twenty feet in diameter, so we used the scoop on the tractor to lift Brent high enough to cut the top. I forgot to say, the hedge trimmers were useless on the second bush, it took the chainsaw to trim it down to size. We trimmed the smaller third bush and hauled the trimmings to the creek and chopped them up with the bush hog too. Then we moved over to Regina's and I bush hogged a row of weeds, then used the scoop to lift up a couple of pieces of fence that were about twelve feet long. I flipped those over on top of the trailer behind the Mule. We hauled those over to the fire pit and set them off. I popped three pieces of concrete out of the ground that had been anchoring pressure treated fence posts. I used the scoop and graded the dirt to make it smooth enough for Regina to be able to drive her mower over the area. A light rain began, so we all went to our house and ate home made vegetable soup that Linda had made.
Sunday morning Linda fixed us pancakes for breakfast. After eating, Brent and I took the tractor and chainsaw, headed across the creek and began to cut the brush growing in the ditch between the hay fields. It was what Phil Garmon couldn't cut with the sickle bar on his tractor. I first used the bush hog to chop the weeds and brush as much as possible. Then Brent, once again, rode in the scoop as I pulled the tractor to the edge of the ditch and let the scoop hang over the edge so Brent could stand in the scoop and cut the brush growing out of the ditch. It worked fairly well and we were done in about forty minutes. Later in the afternoon we went to Grumpy's for lunch. We returned home and dug some mums for Pauline and Brent before they left for their house around 3 PM. Linda and I mowed until around 6 PM, when Regina came over and wanted us to dig mums. We went to the patch and dug several mums for her to take to the Center for the Aging Monday morning.