A/C finally installed

 After sitting on the unit for 2 months, they finally installed our air conditioner. It works very well and will turn the place into a meat locker if we want to. Thanks, Allen!

 It may be a "scratch and dent" model, but I couldn't find any. It looks perfect.

I'll put in a new enclosure for it someday, but that is a little lower on the priorities list. The working unit was much higher on that list.

10 days worth

 I brought home a couple more BIG bags of sawdust for the culvert pipe, figuring it would fill it in fairly well.

 Each bags fills up the cart twice, 4 loads of fill. It is working pretty well, but it still has to settle in.

 Yogi came in in his white wrappers. He yielded 55%, right in the middle of the dairy breeds and the beef breeds. Yogi was a mutt, so we don't know exactly what breed he was.

 The garden is looking good. We have flowers on the beans, small tomatoes, and a ton of peas and lettuce.

 On Monday, Heather picked up a load of mulch for me from the place in Farmers. Back to the filling operations.

The whole load spread on the culvert pipes. We ran the 4 wheeler over it a few times to help pack it down. I might be able to get the mower over it now, but I haven't tried it yet.

Pork Chop is doing well

Pork chop is growing very nicely. It looks like he is nearing the 200 pound mark. I can still see the size difference, but it isn't a real big difference anymore. Mom and I stopped over to check on him today.

Some fill for the culvert pipe

 Now that's a big bag of sawdust! Masco just throws it away, so I asked if I could take some home. They were happy to let me have it. They even loaded it for me. I'll take the pallet back. I really don't want it.

It took two cartloads to empty the bag. There was a lot in there, and the "land bridge" to the back of the pasture has begun. I'll bring more sawdust home as I have time to visit the guys in the warehouse and get more.

Happy Memorial Day weekend

 This was Saturday's job: packing in the culvert pipe that I added to the drainage in the back of the pasture. The old hay bales we left around the skirting was for that purpose.

 It was a 20 foot section of pipe that I cut in half to make this pair. The rest of the hay was packed around the pipe to hold it in place and start with the "bridge" over the wet/soft area. Now the filling in begins.

 The brush pile was Sunday's job. I have been waiting for the pasture to be vacant before lighting it up. Horses don't really like bonfires.

 Today, I finally took the boat out for the spring shakedown run. Yeah, I know it's quite late for that. But better late than never!

A very nice day out on the water. The water temperature was higher than I expected at 77, so the lake is warming up quickly.

Finished planting the garden

 These picture are from the 4th of May. I am a little late getting them up. We finished planting the garden today, adding the collards, beans, carrots, squash and tomatoes.

 Mom was here to supervise the operation and read instructions for us.

 We had a very nice day to be outside working on it. It was warm and sunny.

The garden all planted. As of today, the only thing not growing are the scallions. I guess we will replant them tomorrow. I weeded most of it today and everything is looking pretty good.

Weekend stuff

 The yard was getting deep, so I mowed it. The front yard still has a small spot I couldn't get the tractor to. It was just too wet.

 The back yard was easier. The garden is growing, but slowly.

Pork Chop, on the other hand, is growing quickly. It's getting hard to tell the two apart now. I have to look closely to see the size difference. They really like watermelon.