We are very blessed to be part of such a wonderful and caring community! As soon as we made it home Nick's friends were out in force to help with some much neglected chores on the farm. Our neighbor Ray rode his lawnmower over and knocked out the lawn around our house in about 15 minute. So wonderful!
Then our other friend Gene decided to one up Ray with the big boy toys. Gene brought his mini excavator over to help us burn the ENORMOUS brush piles we had been accumulating. It was so cool to watch him use the excavator like an extension of his arms simply plucking brush and rearranging the pile. It was a great burn that lasted for a few days (despite the horrible rains we are having).
Once the brush was going Gene decided to look for more to do (and of course we let him!). Last year a tree was topped in a wind storm and it landed in the ravine by out house. Gene managed with his itty bitty excavator to pull that top out:
That little excavator was holding on for dear life to not topple over!
Once that was out he continued on and dug out the small "creek" that Nick had been trying to trench out by hand. Right tools = short work! He dug the creek out and gave us a pond as well. Right now it is overflowing due to the record rains but you can get the idea.
Upstream view:
The pond:
We are going to fill it with a rock bottom and put a rock-stack water feature in the middle since it most likely will get pretty low as it is merely a run off stream.
Gene built up a little mound so we can plant some cover and have some privacy for a brick sitting area complete with fireplace/pit next to the pond. Another friend has already donated the bricks so we are on our way.
With all this rain wreaking havoc on the crops we are super happy to have the green house. Here are the latest starts:
Looking great!
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