We first headed to Taylor to pay for another 3 months on the storage unit that is housing the bulk of our furniture. We debated a long time about how long to extend the lease as there were some freebies included if we went longer. We finally decided we would be optimistic and go for the three months because we would rather have the house complete than have an extra month or two of free rent.
As we drove into the farm, our neighbors were working on the fence. We felt very sleazy about ourselves because we haven't helped at all. So we told them we would be back to help after we checked out the house.
The framers were back to finish odds and ends and repair/replace the soffit.
Planted a few little bluestem seeds we had acquired. Maybe we'll have some luck.
Then we headed back to help with the clearing of the fence line.
If you look closely, you can see the near perfect brush piles in the neighbor's pasture in the top couple of pictures. I've taken pictures of our hodge-podge piles in other postings. They are so organized and methodical in their approach. They have three kinds of piles. One is of larger logs which will be transported to a place in town that turns the logs into wood chips for public use. Another pile is only for fast burning vines, and the third is smaller branches which they will push into their pasture for a slower burn. At this point, we just keep making more and more new hodge-podge piles.
We have learned from the neighbors in the past and were reminded again that the vines will kill the trees if we don't keep them in check and out of the tree's canopy. In my research, I've learned that once we chop them down, the cows will eat the new emerging shoots which will stunt/limit their growth. So it looks like brush cutting the vines is on the agenda for a while.
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