40 degrees, going up to mid sixties, but we got nervous last night and started putting sheets over some of the little veggie plants, like the peppers. Unnecessary, it didn't get that cold last night, but tonight there is expected to be a frost warning out, middle of May? Back on go the sheets, hopefully for the last time.
Need to take a few days off and mow the 18 acres of fields, which is part of my job as caretaker to this property where I keep all my equipment.
For the first time, yeah! I'm going to hook up my LandPride mower to the new Kubota and I can finally mow without sneezing. Pollen is super heavy now and it's just misery for the allergic. We shall see how those air filters work in the cab, I'm sure just fine. Now if that crummy oem radio wasn't broken I'd have some music. I have a new Kenwood and Polk speakers going in, but I'll be mowing without tunes this time.
I'd really rather be finishing the planting in the garden, but the fields are growing an inch a day it looks like so I need to get that done.
I'll be mowing with a soft collar on, an arm brace and a back brace, what a wreck. Headed for a neck fusion first week in June, need to get all my jobs done before a hard collar goes on for six weeks. Don't think I should be bouncing around in the cab with after a bone graft to my neck.
Ah the joys of getting older. It's just pain, sort of, my right arm is now going numb, but if I have to hurt, I'd rather be doing something than watching tv. Hard to sit and do nothing, just not wired that way, as I think most of us are.
so hopefully after I get the mower on, why, oh why haven't I got a quick hitch yet, these on and offs are hard on the body, I'm going to spend a few days quietly going round and round. The local hawks love it when I mow, the little moles and mice go running and the hawks swoop down. I never tire of watching the hawks. They have no fear of me whatsoever, they consider themselves top of the food chain, no matter how big or noisy the tractor is. Last summer I had to stop the mower while a hawk was working on a mouse in front of me, looking up at me like I was just an inconvenience, not a threat, and with a graceful swoop took off with his lunch. Glad it's not me having a raptor come looking for dinner material. So, there's always something to see while going round and round.
have a nice day all. Drew
