Overloaded.

i have been soo busy lately. with all the damage to the property due to the wind storm i have been put way behind on all my things i want to get done. the storm ripped about 30 some trees down on my property. 11 of those trees you probably couldn’t even rap your arms around them. So my dad has been helping me cut all of the trees up and ive been stacking them and getting ready to sell them. make some cash off of this disaster. So since my dad has been helping me so much i helped him all this past weekend. he is adding on to his house and in the process making a storm cellar. we got it all dug out 12 feet by 13 feet and about 10 feet down. yeah its a big hole we finished up with that this weekend and pored the footers. which means i mixed and poured concrete sunday. and man i am soo freakin sore. in other news since i have been outside so much i have not been inside to do any of the things i need to get done on the nursery. i am still sanding the dry-wall half done with that. i am done with the ceiling it had that popcorn ceiling i don’t know if you know what it is but if you do i am sure you hate it just as much as i do. its that type of ceiling that has the speckled crap of bits of styrofoam and paint. so what i did i scraped the ceiling off and now it just looks like its a textured ceiling which makes it look a whole lot better. but i have maybe another nights work on it then i have to go back over some dry wall joints. Then a final sand after that it should be ready for some primer paint. but yeah there is so much going on right now i have not had much time to do any thing even post on my blog. what not even time for that!! well i am hoping things will start to slow down so i can start back to posting regularly. 

-MeaD.

Now That’s What i Call a Tractor!

Good Old Boy, Rough Neck, Country Boy…. Call it what you will I am one I don’t go to the existent of calling my self a redneck or hillbilly cause well those are the people that think wal-mart is part of the government.  I have been in the country my whole life i live and breath it. I am not your typical Country Boy of course due to the profession i am in i do more than just sit around a tire fire talking about there cousins. Truth be known i really don’t sit around tire fires…..yeah. well being a Country boy I have to admit that i do indulge in some of the sporting events. These are not what you would think though but yes NASCAR is one of those events but i hate nascar. what i am talking about is Tractor Pulls. yes good old fashion lets see how much that tractor can pull till it stops Country Sport. i just w For those of you that have never heard of or seen Tractor Pulls its my delight to tell you all about them.  The basic premise of Tractor pulls is they hook the tractor up to a sled that at a slight angled track on it that track is a large amount of weight when they start pulling it the box of weight moves toward the top of the sled and the weight of that starts to make the sled dig in the ground so they are not only pulling all that weight but also pulling against the earth. the goal is to pull 300 feet. that is what they call a full pull. but if they pull past 300 they will either do a pull of at the end. which means they add more weight and pull again or they will just do a floating finish which means who ever pulled the farthest wins. but you might as what fun is seeing a tractor pull a sled of weight. OH well thats the one thing i didn’t mention you to you yet. When i say tractor well some of these the only thing they have in common with a tractor is the frame and wheels. People will put any kind of engine on these things can range from a Modified Tractor engine to a Jet Engine i have see ones with 4 hemi’s on it before amazing seeing such power pulling such weight is awesome. its a great thing to see if you really like to see raw power.

other country sporting events:

• monster truck rallys
• crash derbys
• rodeo’s
• and anything with a gun or fishing pole.

 

-MeaD

Nothing Runs Like it.

 

So this weekend i finally finished my Tractor. after me rewiring the under carriage fixing that problem. then figuring out that the battery when dead shortly after doing that i recharged the battery and BAM. i got my self a work’n Deere. Christina & I got the whole property mowed in record time. go figure two mowers gets the job done faster.

-MeaD

Strawberries Galore

I am in the middle of my first harvest right now. My strawberry patch is producing lots and lots of strawberries. last night christina & I picked 25 pounds of strawberries. Yeah 25 lbs. i didn’t believe it either till i saw my whole kitchen table filled with strawberries. I originally thought i was only going to produce 15 to 20 lbs out of our patch. I totally miscalculated so far we have picked around 37 lbs. WOW you say. yes our patch is around 30 feet by 50 feet. its a good size and its just over run with strawberries. we have a crazy amount its taking up our fridge completely. i am selling them as fast as i can but i still can’t sell fast enough. I am selling them for 3 bucks a pint (pints a pound the world around) good way to remember how big a pint is. i know in a couple of days I’m going to have at least another 20lbs. to pick too. I personally don’t really care for Strawberries. But i do love me a smoothie so i have been having some smoothies with fresh strawberries in it. good stuff.

 

-MeaD.

Farm’n it up.

Last night for the first time in Christina’s Life she planted a garden. its a pretty decent sized one at that. She did one hell of job and the best part she seemed to enjoy doing it. which is one thing most people don’t like to do take care of things. i love doing it. we planted half of them last night and the rest we just got done planting. she has been working like crazy outside and it is great to see her so into something i think she finally found her hobby that is going to stick. we got alot planted everything is seed right now so it will hopefully be little sprouts in a few weeks. but to rant off the things we got planted

• Peas
• Cucumber
• Peppers
• Carrots
• Pumpkins
• Sunflowers
• Tomatoes

oh and that not all. all the berries we have we have are:

• grapes
• blueberrys
• raspberrys
• blackberrys
• strawberrys

and they are all starting to bloom. its a great thing see theses things grow but the only part about it i don’t really eat all this stuff i just like to grow it. . . .ironic. . . maybe.

-MeaD.