Farmer Chix

Farmer Chix - Kathy (with her favorite garden tool)...

...and Bonnie.

Catch wires are up.

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You know you are Farmer Chix when you harness yourselves into your buggy and your horses take you to the Farm Store instead of Wal*Mart.

You know you are Farmer Chix when, upon your arrival at the Farm Store, you can greet the staff by name and they ask you how your drainage tile project is going.

We now consider ourselves Farmer Chix because we live on land zoned agricultural and we are cultivating the most beautiful crop in the world...grapes.

We didn't accomplish much on Saturday. We did go shopping and, while out, we stopped by to visit our Autumn Blaze Maple and set up next Wednesday for its delivery and planting. Kathy almost died of shock when the estimate for this service was $150.00! That is almost what the tree cost when we bought it on sale last Fall!

We 'cussed and discussed what to do about the downspouts. We decided to see if Denny could tie the back downspout into the work he was doing for us with the perimeter drain. He said he could, so Kathy went back to the Farm Store and purchased the rest of the connectors. For the front of the house we bought some rock to put under that spout.

Kathy ran a hose from the dehumidifier in the basement to the sump hole. When full, the reservoir was very heavy to remove and empty. We had run a hose in another house we owned and it worked out well. That will eliminate one daily chore since the reservoir was full every day.

Today we put up the double set of catch wires on one of our rows of vines. This would be the row with the most mature of our Marquettes. That went smoothly since we were dealing with mono filament wire and not high tensile. We needed to string two more single rows of high tensile on our row of Native vines, but it was getting hot and it is a bear to string that wire, so we put it off for another day.

Bonnie went inside to get out of the heat and Kathy got out the trimmer-mower and finished the fence row and also mowed the weeds down around the LP gas tank. She is going to stop by and pay Jonathan for his initial mowing of the property and ask him to mow again at his earliest convenience since the weeds are growing, well...like weeds. This time he may be able to lower his blade and cut the weeds down a little lower.

Bonnie worked in her garden today weeding and setting up a trellis system for some pole beans.

We saw Denny when he came over to try to find the field tile on the north side of the walk-out that he will be tying into the one at the south side along with the perimeter tile, and now the back downspout. He is doing such a wonderful job for us.

A very happy Father's Day to Denny and to all the dads who have helped us here with our cottage...Mike and Rex included.

We celebrated our fathers today over coffee. Kathy said that her father always made certain that he took his children to all the places of historical or cultural interest as they moved from state to state. (Kathy was a military brat.) Bonnie said that her father instilled in his children a work ethic to always do the very best they could at whatever job they did. We miss our fathers very much.