First days - fn

Well.  We’ve arrived in Kentucky.

It was hard to leave the College and our home of over 36 years.

But, we love it here.  We have a nice little apartment – with emphasis on “little.”  We thought we had already downsized, but we have to get rid of even more things.  It’s good for us, but again hard.

Wilma had come up to Wheaton to help us pack up our final things.  We couldn’t have gotten it all in without her.  This is inside the trailer with miscellaneous stuff packed on the bottom.  Then our mattress and box springs and then she crawled in to the space on the top to stuff more stuff in.

She went to her home with her van still packed with our things and came to our apartment on Monday to help us get unpacked.

 

Amy came on Tuesday to also help with getting settled but we didn’t take pictures that day.

We have had time to go out to the farm.  There has been a lot of rain and everything is growing robustly.

I got some seeds planted in the greenhouse and they are up already.

Thursday was a beautiful day.  The sun was shining and a breeze was blowing.  Bob sharpened the mower blades on both the mowers and then I mowed most of the day.  Bob was bush hogging.  (For you city folks, the bush hog is a 6 foot, mulching mower that is pulled behind the tractor.)  There was this narrow strip of storm that went right over top of us, but didn't rain this particular time.

 

Charley is doing rotational grazing.  This means that he has many small pastures and the 16 cattle are only kept in each one for a few days, then moved on to the next.  This gives that particular patch of grass time to recover before it is eaten down to the ground.

The baby pigs have been getting out.  Bob thinks he has the problem solved and they show up in the yard again.  Thankfully they are a heritage breed of pig that grazes and doesn’t root.  They are guinea hogs.

Today it has been raining.  Bob found a barber  - a young man in his mid-thirties who has just opened his own business.  We are glad to support a local business man.

Because it has been raining, we stayed at home today and have been going through more boxes and throwing out more stuff.  Time to leave to see the builder.  Exciting times!