Challenging Spring | Crooked Beak Acres

01MAY2017

Goodness me again! I am going to really try to get this posted at least once a week. As you can see I have failed so far and for that you have my apologies. It has been a challenging couple of weeks, with work, the produce garden, the horses, and trying to stick to some type of eating plan. I had to break down and order new military uniforms for the Derby. I was afraid of that and I am quite frustrated with myself; but I see no ability for a stringent workout plan with all that is going on. I really don’t know where to take this. Now for the produce patch… It is all tilled. I had to break down, put the horses aside, and use the tractor. No, definitely not giving up on the horses. We are crunched for time and need to get this moving forward and ready for the plants and flowers. Our distributor was here over the weekend and was actually quite impressed at our progress and said we were right on track. Well, guess our frustration was all for nothing. LOL...

The horses have been doing great and I’m excited to start using them more and more. We plowed about one-third of our garden and we will continue to use them for the other fields as we more towards them. These past couple weeks we had two tractors and two trucks break down.

We managed to get our main garden tractor going enough to finish tilling, but it still needs some work. There is something wrong with the steering and it’s making this horrid “clunking” noise. John’s afraid it’s the transmission or something similar. I have no clue!

We still have one truck down, but at least two of the four are back up for now. Rain has pretty much put a damper on most of our outside activities for the moment. We are just waiting for things to dry up and warm up so we can get this produce in. My distributor said the other day that the first year is always the most challenging. I will agree! I’m adding some photos of our progress and your enjoyment.