Thursday with Turkey Video

Stormy cold weather made the last few fields too soggy to work until they dry up a bit. They are wet ones anyhow and the added rain will make them traps for unwary tractor operators. Our place is partly made up of fine slate soil, black as coal and rich and crumbly...one of the best soil types in the state. The rest is mostly clay...not the worst kind of clay by any means, but too boggy to work when it is even damp, let alone this wet. The good Lord willing, it will dry out a little bit soon. It has been so cold the men have been hesitant to start planting. Now, maybe with the full moon behind us the weather will moderate a bit.

My dear brother brought me down some wild raspberry and blackberry bushes (wish they grew the electronic kind rather than the prickly type) that he found on Craig's List. Got to get them planted, plus potting up some errant herbs for the library plant sale. I hate to waste the volunteers and I am delighted that the library will be able to profit from them rather than me just tossing them in the compost bin. So far I have some hyssop, spearmint, garlic chives and lots of perennial top onions. I am hoping it is warm enough today that digging won't be a misery, like most everything else has been during our mini winter. Believe it or not, I had to drag the long johns back out yet again!

And here is the eagerly awaited turkey video with the profanity replaced by Jason Aldean's Hick Town....most appropriate I think. (I wanted to use the Roosters' Kill the Mullet, but alas, Becky couldn't get it to work. It is kind of jerky and has been shortened maybe more than it should be but....