Bush Hogging

This morning I took my mp3 player and wore long pants when I went to the hay shed around 5:30 AM. The Ford tractor's battery was too weak to start the tractor, so I hooked the battery charger to the battery and plugged it in to the extension cord. I started the FarmTrac and went back in the 'holler' to mow some of the grass areas. The temperature was in the mid 60s and it was nice working on the tractor and not being fried. I mowed the hillside, along the branch and the area where we have several little trees planted. It took about an hour and twenty minutes and then I went back to the house. I told Stacey and Linda to dress and we would go eat in town. We did, then checked out a few hot rods that were having a rod run and had stopped for breakfast too. There were several nice cars and trucks. Back at the farm, I went back to the hay shed and started the Ford tractor, took the charger off and set it aside. I backed the tractor out of the hay shed and headed back across the creek. I bush hogged around a walnut tree at the corner of the hay field and the entrance to the other hay field.
 
I used the bush hog to trim both sides of a 4-wheeler trail along the hay field and then cut the weeds in the gully next to the hillside where I had mowed earlier.
  
Linda and Stacey went to Campbellsville to shop while I stayed at the farm. We had a break in the temperatures, it only made it to 98 degrees today. Around 6:30 PM, I went for a ride in the Mule to check on the mum patch. With no rain in the last couple of weeks, the mums have not had any attention from us because there's not much we could do. The ground was too dry and hard to pull the grass out, so we have watched to make sure they're not wilting from lack of water, which they aren't.
 
The pumpkin patch, on the other hand, is in trouble. The vines are showing signs of heat stress and some have died. There are pumpkins, not as many as we expected and they aren't that big.
 
After making a lap around the patches, I continued across the creek and drove around the hay field. It was mowed a few weeks ago and the 'Johnson Grass' is growing and looking OK.
 
I can't say the same for the creek. It has stopped flowing and the water is starting to completely dry up. There are some puddles left, but not many.
 
Maybe the next few weeks we will get some rain from the hurricanes headed towards the USA. It seems...

"One man's poison...
is another man's cake."
Rupert Hine