What do you do on a sunny Saturday in October? Work, of course. Cleaning up the old chickencoop and pulling stumps this weekend. I had three boxelder stumps left in the old house garden at the farm. These things were nasty, clumps of 6 or 8, 5-8 inch thick boxelders that I’d cut down earlier in the year. I was going to leave them, but they were right in the way of everything, so I finally worked up enough ambition to dig them out
What a pain in the neck! All of them had three or four main roots that were nearly as big as the tree trunks had been. Finally got them out, though. And I’m glad I got them out. It will make working the old garden a lot easier. It borders the field I’m going to be using. Not only will I not have to worry about hitting the things with the tractor or some other piece of equipment, but it will make it esier to lay out the beds.
The old chicken coop is in the background. It took us an entire day to clean the thing out. It had been accumulating junk for the last 30 or 40 years and was the nastiest, filthiest thing I’ve ever had to deal with. Once we get the stuff we can recycle sorted out and the rest thrown away, we can start dismantling the thing. I’d hoped we could use it, but it became obvious rather quickly that the structure wasn’t worth saving. We’ll save what lumber we can and the rest will go for our annual New Years Day bonfire.
