This past weekend was supposed to be tree removal day but due to all the rain we have had in the past week to 10 days it got rescheduled because it was just not deemed dirt stable enough for a tractor and a big bucket truck required to drop a whole elm tree and manuvering to trim other trees around what will be the house location.
So instead of tree work, we continued to work on the clearing the build site. That includes 2 more border fences that have to be removed so we worked on the longer of the two. First was the 2 rows of barbed wire. This was easy enough until it got to be time to roll the stuff up. I failed barbed wire rolling and Larry took over that task as I continued to pull staples holding the fence to the posts.
Now this is a story about Daisy - she was my supervisor the whole day as I was working on this task. She would lay down next to the fence and watch me. I never could get her to dig at the base of the fence post where the dirt had actually buried the bottom row of staples, but she was encouraging with lots of loving licks and shaking my hand for a job well done. She also was busy doing border patrol to make sure no stinky varmints bothered me while I worked. We had seen a skunk run across the county road that goes through the farm the night before. The long fence is now rolled up and all that is left to do is pull the posts. So progress is being made.
Daisy would also help me check on the garden growth by walking through the garden with me. Of course, she was not as careful about where she stepped and I am sure there was more than one plant that got a paw push. Her new responsibility is keeping rabbits out of the gardens so the plants can grow big and strong.
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