Wednesday, April 09, 2025

Move, burning, hayfield harrowed

This afternoon I used my pickup to haul furniture for Edward.   He got approval to move into an assisted living apartment.  He has Gaucher disease even though he is in his mid-40s.  Donna and Mabel have been looking out for him and taking him to see a doctor or to a hospital at times.  They gave him a sofa and a recliner and desk stand for his new apartment.  I had a pickup full of furniture to move.

The wind was still blowing in the 'wrong' direction today.  Not as strong.  But off-and-on wind speed.  I decided to burn a small section of the ditch across the road. The northern end of what I plan to burn.  It was against an area of rocks with little to no vegetation.  When I had mowed my 'strip' I had to go from the road to where I wanted to make the 'strip' in the field. I also wanted to mow around this telephone pole. Years ago when I last burned this ditch the telephone pole had caught on fire.  I don't want that to happen again.  So I had a path out to my 'strip' as I couldn't mow close to the rocks.

In the photo you can see the area is not big.



I didn't burn the rest of the ditch today as I wanted to finish harrowing the hayfield today.  Tomorrow the wind is predicted to be light and from a 'good' direction.

My harrowed hayfield

The harrow is holding up so far.

With the hayfield now harrowed, that opens up the window for me to fertilize the hayfield this year.

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