Rocky fills up the freezer

Heather and I picked up Rocky from the butcher shop this morning. We got 9 flats, although the last one wasn't really full.

 We started with an empty freezer. He gave us a 62% yield from 1385 lbs going in. We got 433 lbs to fill the freezer with.

  

 And that really filled it up. We had repack some things around the edges to get the lid to close.

Naturally, we had help. She loves going for a ride to anywhere.

At the Longbow launch

 I went over to Cave Run Lake this morning. The water was a lot higher than I thought it would be. Heather was supposed to go with me, but Heidi foaled last night and she stayed home with the horses instead.

 It was a beautiful day to be out on the water. The temperatures were in the upper 60's late this morning. The water was still chilly at 58.

 There are a lot of different colors of green all over the sides of the lake with spring coming out in full force.

Any spot that was a bit lower  had some flooded timber , but it isn't anywhere near as bad as it was during the flood 5 years ago.

Now the boat is ready

 It's been a long couple of weeks waiting to get the boat on the water. Something always seemed to come up, or it was pouring rain.

Today wasn't a pretty day, but it wasn't raining, either. I took the opportunity to get out on Cave Run Lake for a little bit and give the old boat a shakedown run. It ran a complete lap around the lake and did pretty well.

Getting the mower ready

 I pulled the deck off the tractor last night when I got home from work. Heather helped me set it up on the sawhorses to make it easier to work on.

 All the normal deck maintenance items done: cleaned and painted, spindles greased and blades were also sharpened. It will only look nice until the first time I use it.

We set the deck back down and I put it back on the tractor. At the moment, the battery is charging. It had gotten pretty low sitting all winter.

More fence work

 We were able to get the back corner straightened up and braced today by digging out the outside of the post and winching it back upright.

 The old concrete collar was a little deeper than I remember it being.

 We had a rough time with this one. We could wiggle it, but were afraid of snapping it off like we did to the one in the back part of the fence.

 Then I got the notches cut for the bracer post.

 The corner post is a little rough on the outside and that makes it a bit harder to cut neatly, but we managed to get it cut.

The bracers are all nailed in. Time to clean up and re-attach the wire.

Tree removal

 This twin trunk locust tree had cracked and was pushing the Warner's fence. Heather and I went over this morning to take it down. Jim was also there to help. We pulled the tops over and got them cut off before I started on the trunks.

 Both sides of the trunk were right up against the fence, making it a bit more difficult, but we got them cut off. It might have been one side at a time, but still progress.

 Both sides removed and the fence stood up straight(er).

As expected, we had an audience for the whole procedure. They weren't too fond of all the noise the saw made, though.

Winter came early this year

 Last night's rain turned to snow before it all ended. We got about 2" by the time it quit.

It will probably be gone in a day or two because the ground isn't frozen yet, but the air temperatures won't be melting it. It didn't go above freezing today.