No rain at all this week - highs in the 90s. The mystery is solved on the tall stuff in the prairie plot. I sent a picture to the seed company and they said some Egyptian Wheat must have made it into my blend. It is typically used for screening off areas. I walked thru the whole plot and cut off the seed heads.
Lots of other blooms out there in the plot.
The foxtail might be the predominant species at this point.
While I was out cutting seed heads, there was a really noisy thunderstorm in the area. It resulted in this faint rainbow but no rain on my property.
I did a lot of bush-hogging. The a/c in the tractor cab seemed like the place to be. I mowed some thistle when I could. Weeding by bush-hog.
The main field turnip and brassica planting is spotty. There will be plenty of food there but I'm not sure why there are barespots.
They will fill in to some extent.
Pumpkin patch is showing some heat distress and plenty of weeds.
Some vines look good.
Some have shriveled and died.
This is when the mold/fungus moves in.
There are some actual pumpkins.
Some are already rotten.
But a few are looking good.
Warty gobblin pumpkins.
Swan gourds.
Sunrise Sunday morning - headed out for a walk while cool.
I had mowed around the pond.
Large grass carp. I put two in when I stocked the pond 10 years ago. Didn't know that any were left. When I was mowing, a four foot snake swam away from here. I don't know what kind it was.
On my walk, I saw how overgrown the atv trails had gotten.
This is supposed to be the clearing by the valley stand.
So, I came back later and ran most of the atv trails with the bush-hog. It cleared the ground level but there are still a lot of "face-slappers".
Getting down to this point is a little hairy. The dozer had cut water turn-outs off the trail to prevent erosion but they tilt the tractor at all kinds of crazy angles.
The neighbor has corn in the back field past the valley stand.
And there are acres of soybeans out front. The deer have many options until harvest time.
I walked down to the creek bed in the back of the property. I had an interesting call this week from a guy who mines sandstone out of the creek beds.
He runs equipment up these creeks and scoops up the rock. He's been working in the Carter's Run drainage for 30 years. He was on my neighbors property and wanted to know if I wanted my creeks cleaned. The owners do it to prevent floods and he makes a few bucks selling the stone. I declined.
There were lots of these on the walk.
I made a big loop down past the valley stand, up to the corn field, down to the creek bed to the back property line, around the base of the hill below the ridge stand, up the neighbor's property line and eventually emerged at the barn stand. I walk some nights in Lexington and typically do 5 miles and 10,000 steps. I was dying from this walk and it was only 6318 steps. The difference may have been the weather and the up and down that the phone recorded as 39 flights of stairs.
I bought these Kennetrek boots almost a year ago. Trying to be sure that they're good and broke in before I head to New Mexico. It was too hot and muggy for shooting.
Block and corn should attract some attention this week.
Spraying last week when the block was new.
