Day: October 17, 2025

Spent a bit more time on the dog walk while it drizzled, and saw they have tilled some fields making it easier to pick up stones, rocks and such from the ground now it’s all loosened up. I have picked up a handful of rocks every morning and left little Cairns strewn around the front field edges since I started splitting wood in September. My rock piles are starting to be visible from several meters away. I found a number of eight plus pounders today. I’d like to borrow a Kabota side by side, and drive the whole field picking up bigger machine wrecking rocks, but the older farm hands always need them because they can’t walk more than a few steps without looking Shakey AF. Happens when the farm hands are both near eighty years old I suppose.

Speaking of wrecked equipment take a gander at what I found mixed into the earth from about 60 feet out into the field.

That can go right back onto the machine that threw it off in the first place. Just needs a new bolt or pin, or peg to keep it in place. Either way it has been located, retrieved and put somewhere it can be easily found and reused. No longer my problem.

So here we are — Friday. A tad grey, a bit wet, and more than a little cool outside. After the steady stream of things to do last weekend I hope we can have a quieter couple of days now that some big things were finished. I for one look forward to not driving multiple hours up north just for a few nights stay. Maybe after climbing, and our family photo session on Saturday I can sit back and relax. We could try to Halloween Haunt at Wonderland one more time before it gets way too cold for extreme high speed coasters. Riding them when it is snowing very lightly is an off putting proposition. Makes the eyes water uncomfortably. Still fun though, just chills you right down to the bones where even a hot shower, or a hot bath doesn’t make you feel warm again right away.

Hope you all had a favourable week, and a pleasant weekend ahead of you. Ciao Bella.