How it started versus how it’s going with the gathering of field stones. I’m still only working in one portion of one field, and I have amassed a decent little pile of stone. If I knew how to I would fabricate a sturdy little trolley or wagon with big puffy wheels that I could manoeuvre through the fields, and dump into my designated pile, instead of walking around with armfuls of stone, seeing all the rocks I have yet to gather in random spots around the field that I am not entirely likely to locate once more. A mechanized dump cart would be awesome for this task. Like those ride on mini dumps people use for backyard landscaping and pool digging. Out of my price range, but fun to imagine rolling through the fields gathering stones for a few minutes each morning, in the weeks leading up to planting, and the weeks after final tilling for fall/winter. It would be handy. It would have to be a robust machine because once you start to fill it up that field mud would be very challenging to drive through once leaden down. Probably best I do it by the armful. Certainly getting some extra steps in each day that I do it.
All I can think of besides the rocks is getting my chainsaws down there to process the last logs, and then start splitting again before it gets too hot. Time is running out. According to my weather apps it should start to reach to low 20°C range by the end of next week. Soon after the humidity will come a knocking! Sweat city! Yuck. Only one pile is in the shade, and it’s not the bigger of the two remaining wood piles. Going to ruin a bunch of shirts, socks, and underpants by sweating through them after only an hour or two of hard physical labour.
I find as I get older I am more prone to heavier sweating than I have ever done in my life. Giant isosceles sweat triangle down my back. Huge put stains. Even a boob sweat, belly sweat combo to boot. It’s a ghastly sight to behold. Not my best look! But it means the work is getting done, and that’s ultimately what matters. Not how I appear while doing the labour.
Oh yeah that Home Depot Influenster Seed Program was mostly a bust. They sent me two defective codes, and the support was pretty awful. So don’t expect anything from me beyond that which I usually do. I still write my Canadian Tire, Amazon, and Home Depot reviews after purchases I’ve made, for the things I use, but I do not believe there will be anything for FREE products I would be sent for testing. I don’t believe it will happen anymore. I was well chuffed to be chosen, but it disappeared before it really ever began. No hard feelings. No love lost.
It’s Friday once again, and we are in May now. There’s a whole lot of new green outside which I am very thankful for. All that grey and brown over the winter just sucks the vibrancy out of every day life. Truly depressing. Not anymore! We have colour, and blooming flowers. A good portion of the tulips look to be alive and well. They may not bloom this year, but they lived through the winter, and didn’t get eaten by squirrels — yet.
I surpassed 750 days with my current writing streak, not only that but I have also got the second best viewership numbers here, and we are five months into the year. Which is pretty wild. Thank you all for that. I do not imagine I will have another 2,000 view month like last July when something of mine from the archives kicked off in Germany, but that was a rush to behold. I’ll remember that for the rest of my life! I never did figure out what got people so engaged with my older blog posts. It wasn’t negative because I find people are more easily persuaded to write hate mail than anything complimentary. No hate mail, so it must have been something silly, quirky, or informational (like a book review or movie/game review). Best to not know, that way I can’t be accused of pandering! Ha.
My trusty pooch watching the tree line vigilantly while I work to warn me of approaching coyotes or bears, or an angry big buck deer. I don’t typically see those until the fall, but times are weird out here. It threatened to snow this morning, in May!?! Can you believe it. I haven’t even put our Dahlias in the ground, nor the corn seeds, because of the threat of frost, and potential flurries. Nonsense! Hog wash. Crazy ass mother nature needs to simmer down. I fear we’ve tread too far, and nothing will act as it should, or used to do. But I digress. I’m no ecologist.
Hope you all have a fantastic Friday, and a refreshing weekend. Think about swapping out your winter tires soon!
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