I was doing my Duo lessons and this made me laugh. We constantly repeat this line from Doctor Who, "Are you my mummy?" so it's funny to have it come up in the language lessons.

Standard harvest and had one bell pepper that had been attacked by the earwigs.

The plastic that had been covering both sheds in the back ground got used to cover the garlic garden to try and bake out the grasses now that I have till the roots a bunch. I have about a month till garlic planting time.

I was standing at the board for a little bit and after a nice warmup and some solid ton pluses I stabbed this in for a first for me. Never got a triple double 20 before.

Friday evening is the school "worm charming" challenge/comp which is worm grunting. No digging tools, only grunting tools. Don't know what worm grunting is? Do a quick search.

Having various wood types around I first got a couple of lilac stakes cut. I also gathered a number of various other implements to try like pitch forks, metal and wood stakes, and even my soil core tool.

All the posts got moved into the yard near the wood pile area.

As I was moving them I realized that the posts are the perfect size for making the decompression rack. I have a post that broke in half so I ran and got it along with the scrap boards needed. Soon I had both sides built and ready for sanding.

I worked over the post parts really well with the sander to reduce any splinter potential.

Then they got mounted to a pair of boards with heavy deck screws.

The setup got mounted to the railing of the patio so the top of the posts are at 56" off the ground.

Using my produce scale I weighed out 2 batches of railroad spikes at about 25 pounds each. I have made runs up the railroad tracks over the years collecting the spikes as I knew I would find uses for them.

Into the attic I went to grab a couple of tote bags to toss the spikes into.

Then the safety belt which has rings on the front and back. With the belt on I clip the carabiner to the back ring then squat a little and clip the front carabiner and stand up. I turn a bit to slide my chest between the posts and my arms go over them. My legs pull up off the ground and the weights pull down straight on my spine as I hold myself in the air on the posts. Even without the weight it helps and I can just stop and hang at anytime during the day for a bit of relief.

In trying to devise the construction of the wood cover I realized that I can't build it with the wood piled against the end. I need the pallet moved so I started shifting the pile away from it. I still have to finish moving it today.

The boys got home from school and I had seen our two asshat tom turkeys had gone walkabout again. So I sent the boys over to herd them and I went down to the creek to wait for them.

Soon they were there and we quickly cornered them and grabbed a hold of them.

Out came the scissors and off went the feathers on one wing on each of them. I then carried one in each arm from the creek bed, through the brush, up the hill, across the farm, and then tossed them into the sheep pen in hopes they are too fat to get out.

I was a bit unhappy to see them sitting outside by the coop later in the evening.

Got a solid scratch from the one until I had his leg trapped well enough.

I had seen the nice branches in the pile so took my saw out and cut some stakes.

I now have 2 stakes each of lilac, apple, and hawthorne. I will try to find some chokecherry branches today as they might be strong enough.

I went out to put the birds in and saw one of my massive barn spiders in the middle of her web right over the coop door. She is super fat and her leg span is bigger than a silver dollar.

Soaking felt really good on the sore spots.

The moth picture didn't come out well. This thing is HUGE. The wingspan is 3+ inches and it is like a bird flapping against the screen. I caught one and they are quite strong for their size.

Today I get the boys to school, harvest, try to unbrick my S9, shift wood pile, hang on rack regularly, watch for potential flying, dirt moving needs to be continued, always more clean up to do, then food in the evening.

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