My guests were off this morning in clear weather at 5am and I have been up since 4.
my friend is taking my two Land Pride implements sized for a sub compact back to PA where they will be installed or used on
my old tractor that I gave to the Quaker Meeting. Long story, boring by now, sorry, but now they have a fully equipped Case IH 255 with only a thousand hours on its Mitsubishi engine and a nice collection of implements. The amusingly ironic part of this is that I'm going to be buried there with the rest of my family so if my tractor far outlasts me, which it will surely, then it will be used to keep the graveyard grounds in top condition, along with our zero turn mower of course.
So it's a goes around comes around sort of thing and I'm happy with the long term result. And my buddy can borrow the implements for his JD 1050, same tractor as Farm Girl. A lady who is surely missed here. Though my friend's is set up for the blueberry fields of NJ.
so everyone wins. The charity gift value will nicely reduce my income tax also. Sure miss that tractor though. Like giving a favorite dog to a friend.
and for a little aside...
Mowing around graves is quite an experience. very distracting...but one does not get a tractor near the stones. Too much historical damage from mowing the graveyard with a Cub and a belly mower. That big Woods mower did some damage to those invaluable stones. Some three hundred years old.
So now we tread much more lightly, but even the weedwacker has its damage issues and we sure won't use poisons out there. Not in the land of Prius's and Subarus...
Rippppp, Snap, grrrrrr, snapppp. bang bang bang tap tap tap tap tap
vibrating up through the floor as I hide in the second floor office to escape the carpenters installing the replacement windows.
It's pretty wet outside so it's time to clean up after the guests, do laundry, boring stuff.
some pics to follow later of our trek back to the pond, armed with loppers and clippers so that no vine was safe.