We are busy working on the fall to-do list. At the top of the list right now is getting the barn and corrals ready for shipping calves on Sunday. Yesterday M was cleaning the corral while I did some mowing in front of the barn. There was grass up to our necks in places around the farm, and it looked so nice mowed that I did a little more and a little more. I could still do more but that may have to wait. It was like a little treasure hunt, too. I was very careful trying to get through the tall grass and didn't hit anything but found a tiling spade, a steel fence post, a wooden handle, and several pieces of wood. I also did some mowing around our gate at the main road. We are remembering last winter and don't want to have anything for the snow to build up in.
Today we worked on the barn and corrals. We had a cow do some damage inside the barn this spring and the snow do some damage to some of the other shelter. We had to put a new support pole in the barn, we put a quick latch on one of the gates that gets a lot of use when we're sorting, repaired some shelters by replacing some wood that was broken by the snow and wind, and hung a new gate. Of course, M did the heavy lifting and hole digging. I was more the finder, runner and holder. He needs someone with more muscle than me for a lot of what we did today.
Of course, on our last little project just before we were ready to head home M smashed a finger. We're not sure there's enough Aleve in the house for the both of us tonight!
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