Lou
Lou came over for her birthday. She and Sally did Eureka, dinner, and then came to the farm. Lou helped harvest the garden, which really produced this week in spite of receiving no rain. I feel awful because I was the last one to leave and forgot to lock up the garden. I dread seeing what it will be like when we return in two weeks (after a Chicago trip).
Pond
The culverts were dammed again but not that much water was backed up. I broke them free but the beaver had it redone by Saturday morning. There was lots of algae floating around the edges, so I sprayed it with copper sulfate Saturday.
Volunteer Walnuts
There are lots of these all through the pastures, but I've decided to save the ones along the road to the pond. So I cleared the high grass around many of them using the mower and a weed eater. I hope I can keep them from being brush hogged. It will sure beat buying bare root seedlings and planting them.
Weeds
Now that I know what knapweed is it makes me sick to see all of it we have. I guess that will be the priority after the sumac, which I think I am getting close to controlling -- next year!
Coon Baffle
I rebuilt Papa's feeder and reversed the baffles on our wooden feeder. Will have to wait until the next trip out to see if it keeps those critters out of our bird seed.
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