I can relate to how dry things are around here too Ken. I tilled the gardens today and can't remember them ever being this bone dry. My tractor looks gray instead of orange after the couple hours of tilling. They need another pass with the depth set deeper. That will be another dust bath I'm thinkin. Need to get the plants in the ground soon. They have enjoyed their containers for the maximum time.
We’ve got the opposite problem down here in Alabama. Yesterday and today were the first two days it HASN’T rained in at least a month. But today, yep, dusty again on my lovely clay (and rock) soil in some places, water still standing in others.
Was gonna help out a neighbor with a palleted delivery, but the shipment showed up on a little 6 wheeler with a tommy lift and the nice driver put the package in his garage for him. I got up this morning and swapped the grapple for the bucket and clamp-on forks for almost no reason. BUT, since I always help him when he needs it, I get a free smoked Boston butt for memorial day weekend. Pretty good swap if ya ask me. It’s good to have good neighbors.
After that, I dropped the tow bar on the QH, hooked up the little trailer and brought some old PT lumber up to the shop to start my soil screen project. Got the A-frames built. Just winging it, but will post photos when I geterdun.
Also in the planning stages to create 3 angled parking spaces next to the driveway, which is wy I’m building a screen. I’m not real thrilled about the possibilities of what I may find when I start moving dirt out there. We pick up at least a pound of broken glass every time it rains. For the past 20 years. I’m reasonably sure my yard was the city dump before the county landfill opened. Property is like a box of chocolates, ya never know whatcha gonna get.
