Ditch Work

About 8:30 AM I started the blue Ford tractor and went back to work on the ditch. I figured out that I could just set two wheels in the ditch and drive to the other end with the bush hog running to cut down the weeds and small trees that had grown over the summer. That went a bunch quicker than backing the bush hog over the ditch the entire length. I cleaned out where I had a black pipe to allow for crossings and finished scooping out the deepest part of the ditch.
   
I used the scoop to scrape and level the dirt I had removed, then returned the tractor to the hay shed and went inside. Linda, Stacey and I went to town for lunch. We stopped at the Corner Pool and Lunch and found out it had been sold and was now the Corner Cafe. The place was the same, only the people had been changed. The menu hadn't changed and our waitress was the same one as before. Linda told me the previous owner was working at the hardware store. I guess she had got tired and wanted a regular job. We stopped at the video shack and rented two DVDs and went home. Back at the farm I took a 4-wheeler ride and found a new job that I didn't know about. Trees down!

We haven't had any rain or wind since I've been back that trail, so I don't know what caused those trees to fall, but there they are, laying across the trail. Maybe we should call the farm "Falling Timber"? I've heard that if you don't have the woods logged the trees will die and fall over. But it was logged a few years before we started taking care of the farm, and those trees aren't really that big anyway. Those trees won't be good for burning in the stove, they are too rotten, I'll just have to cut them into pieces small enough for me to move out of the trail. Cleaning up trees that fall 'out of the blue' is probably my second biggest job. Mowing takes the top spot. I saw Larry picking up his rolls of hay and he thinks he will be able to unroll those and maybe the cows will eat them. He said there were about 20 rolls that had been in the flooding creek water. It was almost dark as I went inside.