A wonderful private school in Washington, D.C. The Maret Academy sent their 8th graders to Mountainside this morning for lessons on renewable energy. That meant that I was at N+S Rentals at 7 am to pick up the roto-tiller for the back of the tractor before the students arrived. We spent almost as much time loading and unloading the tiller from my trailer as we did turning the soil. After I taught 3 rotations of 8th graders about how electricity is generated and the fragility of the power grid, and the need to rethink how we consume and produce energy, I took time during their lunch break to till a few rows. I am so getting in to this farming thing. Now if only we can manage to get some vegetables to actually grow.
It was truly a gorgeous day and it is such a blessing to be able to be outside as a job. Josh finished the day ordering irrigation lines that will arrive at the end of the week.
We have allowed the Urbana little league to use our baseball fields for practice during the week. At days end, I was riding with Nancy on the 4 wheeler back to the house when I noticed Mark (Our education director) attempting to spread recently delivered infield clay on the upper infield. 30 small mounds of sandy clay being spread by a hand rake is back breaking and very time consuming. But... when you have the right tools....and I do... I had Nancy take me back to the tractor and put the tractor rake on the 3 point hitch. I was able to do in 30 minutes what would have taken 6 hand rakers hours and hours to complete. And the field looks great.
Since my truck had the big trailer loaded with the tiller to return I opted to drive the tractor across the field back to my house. To me that was such a statement on how lucky I am. To me, at 57, I can't think of a better way to commute to work.
That is me on the tractor
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