No photos for this post, but Jo really wishes she had been able to get her camera out to catch me on video. Ron, Jo and I went out to THF yesterday to pull the equipment out and get it into our shed for the winter. We put it off as long as we could for the day. Cold and windy Saturday is not Ron’s idea of a perfect working day. By 11 am he decided we just had to get it done. Our goal was to get the tiller and brush hog off the farm and into our shed. Ron got them started to burn off the gas and asked me to run the tiller up to the road so we could get it on the trailer. Ron put the thing in it’s fastest gear and handed it over to me. The tiller, being heavier and stronger than it looked, took off and did its best to leave me behind. Picture me running in heavy rubber boots trying desperately to hang on. Thank goodness it stopped when I let go of the clutch. Once we all stopped laughing, Ron got it started again, lowered the speed and I headed out again. We had already tossed 10 bags of top soil into the wagon and Ron took them across the creek with the 4 wheeler. Jo and I got the tiller up to the road and then walked back to meet up with him. He had remembered that we needed to cover the Red Wine Cap Mushrooms with more woodchips and sent Jo back to get a rake. I got my weight training in by dragging the bags to the beds, lifting them up and dumping them in. Had the wrong gloves on as the bags were wet and very slippery. I struggled to get and keep a solid grip on them.
We finished up and headed back, stopping to check on the Shiitakes. And we have more. Will pick them today so we can bring them in to friends on Monday. Got the machines loaded on to the trailer. A task in and of itself. Those things are heavy; strapped them down and drove home. Unloaded, Ron got them started up again and we went in to grab a quick lunch. Back to THF to pick up the 4 wheeler and chop down one brush. Ron has a long list of things that he needs or wants to get done before spring comes around again. Such a feeling of satisfaction to be able to cross a few of them off.