Yesterday morning I woke on the couch where I had slept due to my stomach being wonky overnight. I was out of the house before 5am and on my way to town to get more grain. First stop was to drop empties off at the one brewery.
Next was the Steam Plant were I had 3 barrels after condensing the partial. I got them loaded onto the trailer and in the truck then headed for home.
I got the boys to school, lessons done, and was back outside around 9am. I had left the truck parked in the yard outside the garden and moved the fence and got the trailer backed all the way across again. I was still 30 or 40 feet from the small garden spot so I used the wheelbarrow to haul loads of grain up the hill.
I spread the grain out but nicely this garden doesn't need a ton of amendments so I only needed half the grain.
I was a bit annoyed by it but I had to drive the trailer out of the garden to the pole garden to spread out the last of the grain. I was able to toss some at the sheep and alpaca so they got a few nibbles. The birds all flocked to the grain since the main garden is now shutoff to them.
So back around the yard I drove then backed the trailer across the garden once again. I really couldn't let the opportunity pass to get more rocks moved.
The ramp works like a charm to get the rocks up onto the trailer. Thankfully they mostly all roll in some fashion or another and make it up eventually.
I was able to finish of the second section of the rock wall which ran along this part of the fence. I then kept piling rocks on until the trailer was looking to be strained.
It is quickly coming apart and I really hope to get the wall moved and out of the yard.
I drove out to the road and sent 15 minutes dropping the rocks in line.
I managed to add another 20 feet to the wall length. I should have enough rock from the yard wall to make this one go to the creek on the left side and all the way to our gate past the mailbox on the right. Then the wall will just continue to grow in height as all the rock from the farm gets moved out to the wall.
I hadn't been up to the upper property in a while so I headed up for a perimeter walk to check the fence line. I found a nice eagle feather beneath one of their perching trees in the sheep pen.
It has been coming and it was finally time. I got started on the sheep pen reworking. I got started by taking down the pallets I had up around the grain dumping area. As I took the pallets down I moved them into the pen to use as the fence.
The fence in the corner had become quite messed up over the years and was in desperate need of repairs so it was really good I finally got to it. I pulled the fence down and the posts up before setting the posts in a new line with my new double pallet gate.
You can see how I moved the pallets into a fence line. This will allow me to take the metal fencing down outside of it to use elsewhere on the farm.
I had gone to the house for the post pounder but ended up resting a bit until it was time to pick the boys up from school. We got a small storm system that built up again right overhead and tried to dump on us at pickup but just managed a good blow of wind and a smattering of sprinkles.
Once back I got the fire going in the fire pit for the afternoon which I kept well stoked.
IT'S ALIVE!!!! I got the beast running and went and did a couple passes with it in the nearest garden spot to the shed. I only did the two passes because I had to really work to get the thing to move forward which means the ground is still too moist. The tiller got put away again and I headed back to the sheep pen.
I got the fence posts pounded in which directs the fence in a much better line from the now obtuse corner instead of the acute corner it had been in. Bottoms of a hill transition from vertical to horizontal fencing is a bit difficult without major post pounding many times so I am happy to have made this work easily.
The fence got strung along the posts and the pallet tied to the end post.
The tail of the fence also got strung up again in the pen so I have just the one opening for them to get to the upper pen for now. It is easy enough to take down though so I can always open it for them later.
These 12 foot long pallets ARE NOT LIGHT and after my day of hefting grain, rocks, and pallets I was rather beat. I still had the spare pallets to move around though but they only had to get stacked with the others nearby.
The whole point was to open up the 3 foot deep mass of spent brewing grain that I hope will support squash plant growth the this year. With my reworking of the fence I was able to liberate 6 fence posts which will come in quite handy around the farm.
I was way too worked to make tortillas but did manage to get the burgers grilled for dinner.
After a well needed shower I got out to soak for a while at sunset. My skin is still being a major pain in the ass, well not so much ass but feet, arms/hands, and neck more so which makes soaking for a long time impossible.
Today I have plenty to keep me busy around the farm and might try getting more rocks moved while I have the path still available, the sheep pen can be continued as I want to use the other pallets on the smaller side by the Tardis, building roofs need to be swept, I have to add a bunch to my projects list, and I want to grill again tonight.
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