Good morning. Seeing all the wild weather in the world puts our own into perspective. Compared to those who have been battered and drenched by Irma, our day is starting out as ever so slightly windy and ever so slightly wet.
Kyle, hope your son had as much fun this year at the family fun day as he did flying out that chute last year.
Now it is September I'm allowed to once again cut branches back without risking the wrath of farmland inspectors. Yesterday I made a start on some growing out over a fence that is sorely in need of repair. I have an awful lot of fence posts that have rotted far too soon as the "environmentally friendly" preservatives they have been using for the last few years have proved to be next to useless. Steel posts are very rarely used here for agriculture, however the timber merchants could see if they didn't act they would loose this business and several are now offering creosote treated posts that come in the same environmental category as utility poles and therefore permitted on farmland.
My wife has convinced me (quite easily) that I am getting too old to knock in so many 4" diameter posts by hand over winter, so hopefully in a month or two a young man who puts in agricultural fencing for a living will come with his tractor mounted post knocker. He will be able to drive in the 6-8" straining posts too, which otherwise I have to dig in and then tamp up by hand. I can see that paying someone to do things I happily did myself is going to become a recurring theme as the years accumulate.
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