Looking to get outside to finish tilling the last garden bed.
I probably should also get started on the blueberry bed. That was planted right by my guest house door, where my sister-in-law lives. My logic was she could keep the weeds down. Well she didn't. And I don't see that bed from the house so it is out of sight/out of mind. Every summer its overgrown with weeds and looks like crap, which also cuts down on our blueberry harvest. Not sure why she can't pull a weed or two but its been there for 5+ years and its been an eyesore since year one. I had planned to tear it out this year ... but now I want the meager harvest of blueberries that we get.
I mowed the 4-acre yard yesterday...
I am not sure how much mowing we will do this year
We will keep the "frontage" and "dog yard" presentable. But the unseen areas, field and valley areas that are typically mowed will probably have some paths mowed through them but not have them mowed. I'm looking at it from a FUEL CONSUMPTION standpoint. I have only so many gallons of gas I can (
or am willing?) to store at home.
More mowing = more trips to town for gas.
Trips to town = Risk
Risk = Bad
Or so goes my logic. I need minimal gas for the tiller, chain saw, etc. But I probably use up 4 gallons of gas every time we mow the frontage, dog yard, around the house, etc. And I store 15 gallons of extra fuel in cans. So 3 to 4 mowings and I need a trip to get gas. I've already told the lovely Mrs_Bob and her sister that we will use the gas mower for the dog yard, around trees, fences and up against the house. The diesel tractor will be used for open lawn areas along the frontage area, it is much larger but more economical for mowing if I am only doing the open areas with that tractor. That will let us go 6 weeks or longer between GASOLINE runs to town.
I store more diesel because it is less flammable and also has no explosive fumes, so I'm far less worried about running out of diesel.