Norris Family Blog

Debris and ATV Ride

The weather was nicer this morning so after Linda fixed breakfast, I took the Ford tractor and went across the creek to work on straightening up some of the mess that the rain water had done. The creek had been out of it's banks and flowing through the hay fields, so there were several places that had debris left by the high water.
  
I used the scoop on the tractor to scrape the debris into piles and shove it back to the creek banks. Then I worked on the ditch that runs along the edge of the hill and hay field. I took the back hoe and dug the gravel and pulled it over to the side of the ATV path between the hill and hay field. After finishing that, I put the tractor in the hay shed and Stacey and I drove the Mule to take Daisy for a run. We crossed the creek and Stacey unhooked Daisy and she hopped out of the back of the Mule.
 
 
Daisy was playing in the water and seemed to like it more than usual. I guess it was because the temperatures were in the lower 70s, so she was getting hot running up and down the hillsides. After letting her run for about a half hour we took Daisy back to the barn and went inside for a little bit. Linda came back inside and wanted to take an ATV ride so we went back outside and all took off on the 4-wheelers. We headed back across the creek and down the other side, picking our way along the creek bank until we made it to the other farm.
  
  
It was easy to notice the hay is starting to turn real green and to grow as we rode around the fields. And when we returned home and parked the ATVs in the barn, I noticed as I walked to the house that one of our trees has started to bloom.
 
It was about 2 weeks later last year that we had a hard freeze that damaged a lot of trees and killed plants. Maybe we will be lucky this year and avoid a killing freeze.