🐎 🐂Farm and Country Part 2 (And All Things Rural) 🚜 🐓

[Wonderer67]

The end of the day.
A hole in the clouds.
Full moon rising.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1643429970478354433

 

[Rob_Royale]

When you live out here you cant forget that nature is in charge. A day in the 70's yesterday and we woke to this mess.

 

[Mtnmike]

When you live out here you cant forget that nature is in charge. A day in the 70's yesterday and we woke to this mess.

Sorry, yea that happened here Thursday, Friday and Saturday, bad start to the weekend.

 

[Rob_Royale]

Sorry, yea that happened here Thursday, Friday and Saturday, bad start to the weekend.

Sadly I have to drive through that to leave my property. My wife's truck has no issues, but my Toyota Highlander might.

 

[Wonderer67]

That’s a bummer, bud. Was it from snowmelt? Or rainfall? Or yes?

We have two small creeks running thru our farm. Main one is maybe 4-5 feet across. During hurricane ida (it was just a storm then), we got 9.25” of rain in just a few hrs. Our creek was over 200 ft wide!

Many people were killed locally - so please be careful crossing any running water. Sorry to sound like the weather channel - but it can be deadly.

 

[Rob_Royale]

Yes. We had sporadic rain/snow the last couple of weeks and yesterday in the 70's.
Thanks, though the water is really moving, it's only about 18 inches deep. I wouldn't try crossing on foot, but I'm pretty safe in the car.

 

[Grant55]

 

[Grant55]

 

[Grant55]

 

[Wonderer67]

We bought an adjacent 26 acre wooded lot and are managing it according to our state’s forestry management program. Sadly, it was a dumping ground for many years. The cool part is that there are lots of cool treasures to be found.

The bad part about it is that some of it is just junk and I shudder what might be buried in the ground. It’s a risk we decided to take. Yesterday we cleared out invasive sticker bushes and vines, helping the native trees better. It’s a long process. Also removed this old shit spreader. I had to cut out a small tree to get it out, sadly. Will be cutting off the cool gears and then scrapping it.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1647558521800589313

 

[FunLi]

I love lake days

 

[Wonderer67]

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I love lake days

Didja catch anything?

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

Great photo. I love old rusty stuff.

Previous owner of our farm used the wooded lot to dump old stuff, so we are always finding cool stuff in the woods.

Much of it’s just shit, but we’ve found any number of cool things in the woods. Last week I cut up an old manure spreader for the gears, old spoked wheels and old chains.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1642486343660863488

Would love to see that Studebaker restored! My son found a VW bug in the woods behind our house. It was a 60’s model from what I could tell. Had been there a while. I was going to try and haul it out but somebody beat me to it!

 

[Wonderer67]

Would love to see that Studebaker restored! My son found a VW bug in the woods behind our house. It was a 60’s model from what I could tell. Had been there a while. I was going to try and haul it out but somebody beat me to it!

Sadly the studebaker is toast. It’s a 53, but I had a guy come over and take a look and there’s not much salvageable.

I don’t want to scrap it either. It looks pretty cool, so it’ll sit there and age gracefully.

 

[FunLi]

Didja catch anything?

1 bass. For a lake that usually gives me nothing but catfish, I call it a win

 

[FunLi]

Perfect day for a ride

 

[FunLi]

Just a little one today

 

[TunnelKing089]

Cows out this evening...

https://imgur.com/a/LIGk2fs

 

[Grant55]

 

[Grant55]

 

[Grant55]

 

[Wonderer67]

We’re getting to get our pumpkins planted for our county 4H fair. We start them at peat pots because the fair is in mid August. It’s a bit of a bet bcz you can still get frost this time of year. We will plant more in a couple weeks.

Saturday I plowed the pumpkin patch, raked it out, and my wife and I mound it up hills and planted about 200 Big Max (and other varieties) pumpkins.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1656240709458882561

 

[Wonderer67]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1656242728571633672

 

[Wonderer67]

This is the most amazing wildflower field. It’s right around the corner from our house, and there’s a bunch of beehives in the middle of it. I think these are phlox, and I see black eyed Susan growing in the middle of the field.

Be interesting to see what pops up in his field as the spring turns to summer and then fall…

https://twitter.com/x/status/1658652535593263107

 

[Wonderer67]

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This photograph is outstanding.