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Ellisville Bison Dispatch |
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Around here, Memorial Day weekend was relatively dry, that made it great for outdoor activities. On Saturday evening we burned a brush pile that had been accumulating at Jodi’s. It was a dandy! You can see how it dwarfed the pole building in this picture. It smoldered into the middle of the week.
Sunday I went to the horse pulls in Door County with my friends Lonny and Harold. Here is a picture of them with their teams of Belgians. Lonny is on the left, and Harold is on the right. Harold took second place that day. On Monday, Jodi and I managed to put 140 miles on our bikes. We visited the Shawano flea market, and stopped for ice cream on the way home. Here’s Jodi on her Sportster.
On Tuesday, Mom and I finally got the garden in. Every year we say we should do a little less, but it seems that when I return from the greenhouse with the seeds and transplants, we still have trouble fitting it all in. This year we have more “maintenance free” things like potatoes, pumpkins, pickles, and sunflowers.
Brought home a load of cedar bark for landscaping. My cousin makes cedar posts in Peshtigo, so we drive up there to fill my cattle trailer with the peeled bark. When it’s full, it holds 26 yards....and we load the whole thing by hand. That’s a lot of pitching!
Then….the weather changed. The Monday after Memorial Day produced some violent weather, bringing down a few trees in the front yard. Oh well, we needed the rain and the fire wood. Seems it’s been raining ever since, and the garden/lawn are loving it.
Checked on the turkey nest and everyone had hatched and moved away. I’ll have to keep an eye out for the chix, maybe get a few pics. Now there’s a porcupine hanging around the yard, and I think the coons have discovered the bird feeder.
No new buffalo since the last post, but I suspect there are 2 more on the way.
4th of July is the next long weekend, and Jodi has some time off to stretch it a little more. There’s a horse pull scheduled in Gillette, and we’ll try to get some motorcycle/horseback time in too. Then there’s that cedar bark sitting in the trailer…….
Larry |
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June 11, 2005 |
