Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Strange day

Just got through watering the cabbage and lettuce in the sprouting room. So nice and warm in there but a little close on a rainy day like this. The wind came up earlier and set motion across the terrain but now things have calmed a bit.

Spent a good bit of today cleaning up in the barn. Found an old box of personal papers and etc. from way back in like 1994 or so. Found digging through that more taxing than any of the other work I had to do today. Some old letters from my friends Scott and Steve and some of my musings from back then including a partially finished novel. Might turn that into another blog thread, better than just throwing it on the burn pile. The letters were easy enough to dispose of, they had no content of historic significance. But to reflect upon the writings of an earlier me was a bit like getting hit in the head, without the pain.

We're starting to get the seed orders ready and make our plans for this upcoming year. Dad and I will be hauling equipment over to Bro's shop for repair and rebuild. Especially the corn seeder and mound maker/plastic mulch layer. I'll have a chance to do some more welding. Very meditative work that. The plastic mulch layer is just being repaired but the seeder is in need of a new fertilizer attachment and that will be a challenge to fabricate.

Wishing you a peaceful, rainy day like the one I had.

1 comment:

Rae Ann said...

Winter is a good time to clean out old stuff.