RicelandMeadows

Knight, Duke and Hoss

October 10, 2011

 

    My three horses are loafing while I recover. They seem to be enjoying their life of leisure. Here they are grazing in the farm lane. They even got to clean up a few apples that fell from wild trees. They think they are being rewarded with all the sweet treats!

 

     I don’t mind them getting to goof off a little bit, but would much prefer to have them hitched to my binder cutting corn. I could at least be shocking corn, but alas the fields are just now dry enough and I am not yet healed. Binding and shocking corn is not a job that just anyone can do.

 

     I think I will seek out some help from a few of my “horsey” buddies. They could have a fun day here and I would benefit from getting a couple of acres of field corn shocked.

 

     I do like the shocked corn. The ears store well in the shock and give me a little more room in the corn crib. The fodder makes great bedding. The sheep and cows enjoy eating quite a bit of it. The shocking of corn is an old-fashioned way of doing things and boy, that is right up my alley 😮

 

     I got the garden mostly ready for winter today. I have a guy coming to dig the potatoes before the rains come again. Once they are dug, the garden can be disced down, fall planted to rye and put to bed for winter.

 

     I planted strawberry plants today in the raised bed. We got enough for two rows. I have not planted them in the fall before, but expect them to do alright. They look good so far anyway. I was a sight, leaning on one crutch and playing in the dirt, but it felt good to be having my hands in the soil.

 

     Watching from the porch is not my thing. I do like an occasional nap, but being confined, cooped up or held back, goes against my grain.  I look at the horses and get itchy to hitch them and just go for a wagon ride.

 

     The work waits, the horses loaf  and I rest up…. the harvest is waiting patiently …. for now 😮