The Weather

Hi. I've been watching the weather and I'm not impressed at all! Too much rain and we have the gardens about half planted. I hope the stuff that's in the ground doesn't rot. It needs to warm up as well in order for things to get growing.

Another area for experiment: The Lawn: currently we have a lawn tractor to keep the grass in check. In 1865 there were two ways to do this, grazing animals and a scythe. We don't have grazers yet (thinking about sheep and a goat) and I think Thanatos has borrowed my scythe :-) so for now, we'll use the lawn tractor to cut the grass. The up side of this is we can use the grass for bedding the chickens down. ^The down side is, I have to hand rake it, gather it up and pile it. This time last year I had raked and loaded seven trailer loads (2X4X8)  and it made for quite a large pile. I'm hoping to get a hay mau built so the grass will dry out and make better bedding. I'll let you know how that goes.

Thanks, Ken.