Summer's here, but It's the wettest one I remember.

It's been raining off and on quite steady for the last few weeks. It is disrupting my painting of the cat project, and is limiting our projects to indoor ones. Funny though - I'm the only one complaining. The plants love it. Our newly planted hay field is looking greener by the day, and the grass in areas is waist high.

The roof is receiving it's final touches. The chimneys were installed, the last of the soffit was installed and we are starting to work our way down. Things are looking good!

Discing the fields was a snap once we got another tractor on it. I had tried last year to use a 14-foot disk with our Massey Ferguson. Turned out, the 35hp tractor could barley pull it. So this year, we fired up our old D7 and hitched it up to the disk, and angled it full out. With 103 horsepower on top of those tracks, and looking a little out of the ordinary with a 13 foot blade and logging winch, that yellow monster barely even noticed it was pulling something! Two full days with both the D7 and the Massey got the back forty ready to seed.

First on June we got chicks. So, that meant a chicken coop has to be built. The framework is just about done, and my brother is working on it every day.

Right next to our chicken coop, we set up our new potato garden. Mom asked if I could disk it and try out some implements. I hooked up a ditcher from the far end of our field onto out tractor, and dug 6 trenches 40 feet long. After throwing in seven boxes of seed potato's (And still 1 1/4 rows left!) we then hooked up a "Hiller" we got from an auction last fall.

In fifteen minutes, we did a job that would have taken us close to a full day if we did it by hand. I think I like mechanization!