Mowing and corn

Yesterday G spent the whole day being a farmer (at least the part that a farmer has to spend a lot of time repairing equipment). He has an old Ferguson tractor with a sickle mower. Both are quite elderly. He spent many hours on the mower then did some mowing on our geothermal bed and the ditches by the road.

I spent the first few hours with a half day flu, but recovered nicely. I then picked and froze about five dozen ears of corn. I may have mentioned that the man who farms our few acres, plants sweet corn for us. Well, it gets ripe all at once so in a weeks time I must harvest and freeze the corn. I am not complaining because it is a wonderful treat.

Pig Roast 2011

We had 85 guests for our pig roast this year. These are the four who manned the roaster for the 8 hours (plus prep and cut up time). On the invitation Gerry encouraged anyone who rides a motorcycle to ride it. This is one half of the lineup.

I think I have been running on adrenaline for a month so it has taken me a few days to recover. But today I am feeling more energetic.

Life is crazy right now

Life has been crazy here. Since the trip to Minnesota, we took a whirlwind motorcycle trip with 13 other people on a four day drive in Ontario, Canada. Since my laptop (only computer I now have) is in the basement sitting on a stack of plastic tubs (the only connection to the internet is there and the wireless router bit the dust) it is a bit hard to use. In a week or two we will have it up and running in a more convenient way. This week is preparations for the pig roast. We have about 80 people who have said they are coming at this point. This may sound like I am frazzled, but I feel like things are under control.