I'd forgotten about that part of it... not fun. Also makes you tired carrying the extra weight around.
Hill Top adventures
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After a weekend full of having company over and a week of getting ready for it, I finally got back to tinkering. Need to replace a bearing and possibly the aluminum block mount on the Gravely. Too tight to get a new one, I pulled one off the parts tractor that seemed decent, so going to try that.
I know your pain, Shorty, I just got through a week of company. We had lots of fun and it was great to have friends come visit and help out with some projects, but...... Guess I'm just getting Olde and set in my ways. Could that be possible? 
Yes Lorna, VERY possible! I know I am!I know your pain, Shorty, I just got through a week of company. We had lots of fun and it was great to have friends come visit and help out with some projects, but...... Guess I'm just getting Olde and set in my ways. Could that be possible?
Another 6 townhouses dried in. The mud dried out quite a bit and the site seems a lot nicer. 
And for once I spent an evening tinkering by myself. So quiet I could think. Yesterday evening I had our 2yo out with me. I was tripping over his toys, my wrenches were never where I set them. He climbed over me hanging on my shoulders saying Dad, what are you doing? Wasn't a very productive evening but the boys had fun. JR figured out how to unhook the mower deck and then sat and chatted while I tinkered.
And for once I spent an evening tinkering by myself. So quiet I could think. Yesterday evening I had our 2yo out with me. I was tripping over his toys, my wrenches were never where I set them. He climbed over me hanging on my shoulders saying Dad, what are you doing? Wasn't a very productive evening but the boys had fun. JR figured out how to unhook the mower deck and then sat and chatted while I tinkered.
Glad you are getting some "dry time"! Nice you had time with your boys. Been 30 years since I had my own 2 year old to "work" with. Miss those days!
Time spent with your babies....PRICELESS! In the future you'll forget whatever work it was you had planned to finish last night, probably already have, but your kids and you will look back and remember being together.
So true. My best memories of childhood is tagging along with Dad.
Yesterday was a fun maintenance day at an old homestead as the owner calls it. Changed around a pergalo to make it feel bigger and then installed snow hooks on his barn to save his new gutter. Every thing that gets fixed or changed has to be time period correct. He even is thinking of tearing out the blacktop drive to make it look more rustic.
I never plan on setting out to accomplish anything when my kids are "helping" me...
Hope he's feeling better soon.
Like any hyperactive kid, a day later he was racing around again. That boy is always getting something.
Spent the afternoon cutting firewood again. Started on a log I dreaded to try, but it is the last one on the ground and there isn't room to drop another until the fields are harvested. About a 40" diameter locust that is wedged. Got a few pieces off of it. And if the weather stays nice, Saturday will be our splitting day. JR is all primed n ready to roll. Then this will be easier to load for him to haul home.
Borrowed a splitter from a guy down the road. Picked it up last night and realized this isn't a little one. Plans were to use the Gravely to pull it to the wood pile. But it just so fit through a few spots, much wider than I hoped. Of course dropping a wheel into a groundhog hole made me realize how heavy this thing is.
We had a nice mix of walnut, oak, maple, cherry, and locust.
We had a nice mix of walnut, oak, maple, cherry, and locust.
Enjoying the fruits of my labor.
Sitting right next to it and letting the achy bones soak up the warmth. I was sitting so close that JR thought I was going to brand myself. Thought to myself, nope, 3 decades of sitting next to a wood stove has taught me a few things.
Sitting right next to it and letting the achy bones soak up the warmth. I was sitting so close that JR thought I was going to brand myself. Thought to myself, nope, 3 decades of sitting next to a wood stove has taught me a few things.
