Woke to a very dense fog that took on a silvery glow once the sun came up. It was gone by 0830 or so.
Morning chores went well. Still no calf, but Royal was in season - always interesting out at the barn. The hogs weren't in the mood to wake up, but finally stirred when we gave them the table scraps from last night's get together.
After breakfast, we got to work. Nancy planted some perennial flowers along the edge of the southwest garden bed to frame in the blueberry plants. And she planted four new plants out by the front steps.
While she was doing that, I decided to run the drag harrow over the corn patch to smooth out some ridges left by the rotor tiller. The Grasshopper promptly got stuck - it's a great lawnmower, but a lousy tractor. We got the truck and towed it out and I hand raked the ridges... That ground is very soft!
Because Dennis tilled it longer than it had been, I extended the yellow guide lines to 50-feet. That made for eleven rows with approximately 80 corn seeds per row: 880 corn plants in all. And along the western end of the field we planted six 24-foot rows of pinto beans (had some left over from last year so we figured, 'what the heck'?) for a total of around 450 beans. I sure hope the forecast stays warm (I'm betting on an early and warm spring).
We picked up Rick and Cindy and headed over to a Jackson County Historical Society Dinner and presentation on the 'Harvey Girls' - young ladies who waited on restaurants in the Harvey Hotel chain. It was very interesting and a good evening.
Home in time to plug in the chicks' heat lamp and shut them up for the night. All's good. Until next time, take care of each other.
