Weekend report

We had a busy weekend. Saturday, when we went to the farm to get ready for the work day on Sunday, we discovered that the electricians installing the last of the meter poles had broken our auger. That was bad, because I was at the farm right after they finished, and they didn't say a word about it being broken. If I had been told, we could have gotten it fixed before we needed it this weekend. Then husband Mike decides he would hook up the brush hog so we can mow the pastures. The grass is growing, but there are lots of weeds and scrub plants that survived the winter, and haven't been eaten to golf green height, and we need to cut them back to give the grass a chance to choke them out. We discovered that the connector to the PTO is "boogered". We had a hard time getting it off, and now we can't get it to go back on. That is 2 of the main things we had on the list to work on this weekend.

On the plus side, we had about 20 people show up to help over the course of the day, and got much work done. Anything that could be mowed with the lawn tractor, was. Much dirt was moved around, the lists fields were smoothed up, and marked out. The drainage ditches near the ponds were weed eaten/ mowed. The 2 rolls of fence we have were put up, some trees were planted, brush was trimmed back from where other fence will be hung, and the archery area was chosen and marked. We also battled high winds to hang 2 16x30 ft tarps to the roof edge of the pole barn, to be used as awnings, to extend the area shaded by it, for use at the event. This will give us a usable area about 45x34 ft for arts & science display, children's activities, resting areas for people without pavilions of their own, and in case of rain, we will have an area where we can eat feast, and hold court out of the weather.

We will have another work day the weekend before the event, to mow the list fields, and finish up anything else we need finished before the event.

The port-o-potty was a life saver! We couldn't have used the Murphy Bucket for that number of people.

The gentleman who was building the foot bridges came out right before we were ready to go home. He built 2 foot bridges to put across the drainage ditches near the ponds, so women wearing long skirts, can cross without dragging their hems through the mud. He is amazing! The base of each bridge is mortas and tenon joined with wooden pegs. He then layed boards along the length, and nailed them down, leaving a nails width between each board, so that any rain water would run through. Thank-you Thomas for the beautiful bridges.