Meanwhile, Back at the Farm

      April won’t be the cruelest month for 2015 because March has taken over wake-up duties.  The wheat has shaken off its winter dormancy and covered up the rows with new blades.

     Dandelions and purple mustard eagerly prepare a launching pad for an April riot of color.  Most years I would be plotting to scrub their plans with the handheld sprayer and some good ol’ Roundup.  The idea was to give the buffalo grass a head start.  But the buffalo, never anxious to meet the cold, seems content to sleep late, when the warm weather is assured with no late cold snaps to surprise it.  The mustard will have bloomed, gone to seed and dried up by the time the buffalo awakens.  So this year, I’ll let nature take its course.  Let’s see what happens.

     Garden excepted.  Can’t be having any blooming riot in there.  I didn’t have enough hay to mulch things properly last summer.  Cheat grass and mustard are taking advantage of the situation.

     Other duties called.  The skylights on the combine shed needed to be replaced last year.  A problem:  the “skylights” I bought don’t let in any light.  I failed to realize that until I had installed three of them and stepped inside the shed. 

     So I patched together two of the old ones to keep one patch of light.

     The 830 began to come together between other jobs.

 

    

 And the asparagus got its yearly mowing.

    I cannot tell a lie.  The old Ford 2N and the decrepit mower did it all.

Here's to Spring!