Time to shut down
the farm and return to “the land of the three sons”. “Last minute details” take up about two
days. One job, grease the trees (using
bacon and other meat drippings) to try to discourage the **** deer from rubbing
and chewing on them (note the fall colors).
Folks to the east
of us wouldn’t call these trees. These
are cedars and you should encourage the deer to eat them.
This one is an
ash and might be considered a tree by most folks. It was designed to shade the fuel tanks, but
it had to start over about four years ago due to deer damage and other
hardships.
Check out the
wheat one more time before departure. It's trying to get up.
Woops! One of the drive chains came off. Well, every experiment needs a control
group. Here’s what happens if your
seeder isn’t seeding.
Then, it’s time to
get down to the business of making sure all water hydrants are off and drained,
round up all the tools, clothes, hobbies, and other such impedimenta that have
to be loaded.
All this
activity was really secondary. The real
job was fly control. We tried several
things to try to attract them, things like wine, vinegar, sugar water, Clorox
in water (they went for the golf ball cleaning fluid in the garage, but it
didn’t work in the house). The only
method that worked was the fly swatter.
But even that wasn’t fool proof.
Some that were presumed dead got up and flew away. So, the Clorox water made a good final
solution.
The refrigerators have to be cleaned and the contents packed in coolers. A little house-cleaning, shut up the place, and take off.
When you get home, one of the first things to do is check out the answering machine. Our 93 year old friend has found three shingles in her yard. Can I come up and put them back where they belong?
As long as I am here, can I remove the dead flowers?
Done. Well, I didn’t get too many things done
because everywhere I went, I had to catch up on everybody’s summer. Maybe this week.
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