Ride Around The Farm

The wind had dried things up quite a bit, so after breakfast I went outside and began mowing. The rain had caused the grass to jump up literally overnight. I used the new tractor with the finish mower to mow most of the yards. I stopped and went inside near lunch time and we took the HHR to town and ate at Subway. After returning to the farm, Linda went to work at the school's day care facility and then to her Krafty Kritter's Home Makers meeting. They held it at the new Veteran's Memorial Center in Burkesville. Stacey and I decided to take a 4-wheeler ride around the farm to enjoy the warmer weather. We crossed the creek and went back in the 'holler' where we noticed the little trees we had planted were starting to leaf out.
  
Cooter loved running along with us and wants to lead the way. He doesn't always know which way Stacey is going so sometimes he has to hurry to catch up with us, but if we head for the house, he sure knows that direction and will get way out front.
  
I've never seen the trees on the hills look like they do this year. They leafed out a little bit and the hills were turning green, then the cold weather struck. The temperatures were around 20 degrees for 3 nights in a row and that turned all the leaves brown. The trees looked like they do in fall, now they are starting to put leaves out again. It is really strange looking.
 
The hay fields are starting to grow a little and Phil Garmon spread fertilizer on them to make them grow faster. Phil said that the fertilizer would help them recover from the freezing temperatures. We talked about how much the cold weather had harmed the crops. Estimates are that most of the strawberries, 95% of the apple crop, 35% of the planted corn has all been lost for this growing season.