We are official farmers now with our old '48 Farmall Cubby tractor! We have dusted it off and put it back to the work it was made for 61 years ago! The tractor is older than Asinete and I put together and works harder than both of us too! Yesterday and today Asinete tried his hand at pulling the disc plow to cultivate the area the pigs have already moved through. We had planted a cover crop here just a few weeks ago but had to plow it under as we need to get the ground worked now to ready it for the plantings to come next month (tomatoes, beans, cukes, melons, corn) and all those goodies that are so many peoples favorites! Of course with the tractor comes additional worry about our safety. While Asinete was plowing it looked as if it was going to flip over and I started hollering at him from across the field. What entertainment we must provide for our neighbors!The warm weather we had these last few days has kept us super busy. We have tilled under the rest of the cover crop, planted 16 rows of potatoes (and more to go!), planted out 10 rows of beets, spinach, broccoli, cauliflower, collards, lettuce and cabbages with more packed into the greenhouse waiting impatiently to get into the ground.
Our bodies are sluggish and aching at the end of the day since we have been sedentary all winter long. Hopefully when summer comes around we'll be fit once again!
Good day!
1 comment:
sedentary! I think not. By all the action going on at your farm, if you call yourselves sedentary then the rest of us are real slackers! Your new tractor is just about the cutest thing I've ever seen. It's very fitting for your farm.
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