Shop Talk

The guys were here Friday to start the land work for the shop. The first thing they had to do was create a driveway that will be used by the hordes of people that will want work done by Pronk Repair, LLC. Oh, and to get the big excavator in, too.

In other news, it was a very busy weekend. Art and I are building a walkway from the driveway to the house. Art said we needed this so that people don't have to walk through the yard and get muddy. I'm not really sure what people he means since no one comes to our house, but maybe he's making it nicer for the UPS man. I layed out about 130 paving stones but I'm still about 80 short. I'll post a picture when it's finished.

I planted onions, more potatoes, and green beans. Here's my rant about seeds: I don't believe anything they say on the packet (well, except for pumpkins and watermelons, they're fickle). I figure if it's May, I'm going to plant whatever the hell I feel like planting. I think it's a conspiracy amongst seed companies to elongate the planting season so that each time you go out to plant another packet of seeds, you realize there is some tool you absolutly need but don't have and you must immediately go to the store and buy it. I'm sure most people would disagree with me. Really, it just comes down to the fact that I don't want to take five weeks to plant my seeds. If I'm in the garden planting one packet, I might as well plant them all.

I also ripped out a fence all by myself! I know, I'm awesome. When we first moved in and got Buddy and Linda, Art somehow convinced me that they would live outdoors (who's laughing now?) and we fenced in the area between the garage and the corncrib. Well, that lasted about a week, when we had a terrible storm that I'm pretty sure scarred Buddy for life. Since then we have put pigs in there as well as Helen (for about thirty minutes). Since then, it has mostly served as an eyesore and something to lean fence panels against until Art takes them to the scrap yard. We decided that it needed to be taken out...sometime. I started working on it today because I was tired of looking at it. Art was working, but said he would be home to pull out the fence posts with the tractor. Riiight. I gave up on him at about 6:00 and I, being the awesome farmer chick that I am, used the tractor (all by myself) to pull up the fence posts. I put everything on a pile and put the tractor back in the corn crib without running over the new shop doors that came on Friday.