Weekend Updates!

Happy May!

Have you ever heard the ol' trucker song, "Give me 40 Acres"?   Well that song was running through my head most of this weekend!  Kurt and I spent the weekend bush-hogging the back three (or so) acres of our yard. Let me just say up front--this was far less exciting than the previous Bobcat weekend. 

So here's what the thing looks like.  The best way to describe it would be it's like driving a cross between a 91' Cutlass with no power steering, and a mechanical bull.  It's terrible.  And three days later my hands still hurt!

I didn't take a great "before" photo, but if you zoom in on this photo below, everywhere that's brown was between one and four feet tall.  And it goes back for about 300 yards.  This is half of what we bush-hogged.  Woof. 

So, here's what it looks like when we were all done!  This is from about half way back in our yard.  The brown building in the distance on the left, is the barn that's at the edge of our driveway.  Basically this is a darn huge yard! 

Bush-hogging took four hours on Friday, and another few hours on Saturday.  Then Sunday, we tried a few things to clean up all the junk that we'd mowed down.  We tried using a leaf blower, the lawn mower, and a rake.  All of those things worked a little, but were very labor intensive. 

We ended up heading to Lowes and picking up this lawn sweeper.  Kurt put it together, and then took it for a few passes around the back 40!  As long as the grass is super fine, this thing will pick up 20 cubic feet at a time!

Unfortunately, when you've mowed 3 acres for the first time in a year, 20 cubic feet doesn't get you very far.  So, every night this week, we'll be out there sweeping, singing Give me 40 Acres, and enjoying the sunshine. 

K

Give me 40 Acres