Category: Life

Well funnily enough as I note on my homepage I maintain my garden tractor, today I am doing the rototilling of my garden for fall and the tiller falls off the hitch as I am at the back end of the garden in the soft dirt. I’ve manage to put it back on again myself when it has fallen off close to the grass but since it weighs hmmm probably close to 500 pounds, I could not use my jack to lift it up in the dirt…no matter how many boards I would put down for a base.

In addition a hose had bust and I had the engine oil leaking out (which I hd recently changed a few weeks ago) I got a container to trap the leaking oil then I had to go to town and get a length of hose and a couple clips so I could replace it.

All done, got the hose, replaced the broken section and then asked for help. So unlike me to ask for help.

I called my buddy Hans at Minerva http://www.minervatreefarms.com

and luckily they were close and Hans and Kurt stopped by to help me. They managed to lift the tiller so I could move the tractor and get it back on the hitch then tighten up the lock and I was on my way to finish working the garden.

Thanks guys it is much appreciated!!

I am having a lot of trouble trying to figure out what to do here….i.e. adding pages / posts and categories and how I get them where I want them. I want to be able to have pages and items within each category of Food, Travel and Life but I have no idea how to get there…..I’ll keep searching help I guess…

I am not a tech savvy individual. I can manage various computer skills fine and produce basic presentations but when I decided to finally start a blog and website it was way out of my comfort zone; which is probably why I pushed myself to just do it. All you expert bloggers and websiters will (if you take a look at my site) likely have a chuckle at the primitive aspect of it but hey….I endeavour to persevere; I learn as I go.

I have a considerable library of food pics (some of my friends have dubbed food porn), travel pics, and various writings some bizarre more than others; I will get to them eventually.

Autumn is here, we have been fortunate to have some beautiful fall weather so I must tend to some final yard work on my acreage whilst possible. A couple acres of grass to cut, onions to pull and dry and roto-till the garden. The beets will likely stay in the ground as they are much better after a good frost which releases the sugars. As I am travelling to Spain next week for almost a month, I will be harvesting beets in November possibly in the snow, then finish up some pickling, maybe relish and probably make some borsht.