Big Grain Run, Emptying Barrels, Split and Stack Wood, Seeds, Rhubarb Harvest - Monday

Then down to the Steam Plant where I had 5 1/3 barrels waiting for me. Despite the half barrels size they were really heavy as the type of grains used were holding a lot of liquid still.

I ended up sliding the lightest barrel into the truck bed and emptying it into the barrel, then I slid a full barrel up onto the trailer then up to the truck bed and topped off the full size barrel. The remains got put atop the 6 barrels on the trailer. It is not my favorite way to haul the grain, having the miss matched size makes the barrels a lot harder to get really tight on the trailer so they slide around a lot.

I parked the trailer when home, got the boys to school, posts done, lessons out of the way, then I went out to empty the barrels. I was only able to get the trailer part way into the muck but it was close enough for me to get the grain through the fence for the sheep. The birds were all wading through the grain before I had the second barrel emptied.

Finally took the time to finish splitting the rounds of wood in the yard. A few of the rounds were a lot harder to split than others as the fibers were twisted in the wood, not nice straight grain and easy splitting. Most were not bad though and after a break in the middle for some food I got them all split.

I got it all stacked with a lot closer but also filled in the back row as it makes for a nice fence/wall.

I need to get the rest of the trees cut up on the hill side to help fill in the wood wall. I would like to have it filled by Fall. I have a pretty big pile of bark that I need to decide what to do with. I'm wondering if it would go through the chipper and actually get broken down to small enough pieces. I will have to start it up and give it a try to see.

I had hooked the trailer up when the boys and I got home but after I got the wood stacked I went out and got the barrels all strapped down.

We have some cooler days and nights now for a bit so I got my celery rows reseeded. Hopefully the 40sF at night and 70sF days will allow them to pop before we get hot again. I don't have enough Tango so I seeded the row with the Chinese Pink. I have other seeds to replant as well around the garden.

The rhubarb has gotten big and I figured it was a good time to harvest it. After digging out my harvest buckets I got to hacking and slashing. Some of the leaves were 3 feet across, just huge. The two plants have done quite well over the years.

I could have likely taken a bit more but I want the plants to have some foliage left. I ended up with 18.5 pounds of cut stalks in the bucket and a big pile of leaves. The bucket went to the house where @stryeyz made a rhubarb crisp with some of the stalks.

The plants are a fraction of their prior size but there are a bunch of new growth spots that should put up some more leaves for a another harvest in a month or so if I am lucky.

I asked in our gliding club if anyone could give me a site intro to Saltese Uplands which is next to Liberty Lake and is an open grass hilly area that is the best practice hill we have in the region. I don't want to just go try and fly it without knowing where the take off spot is, the landing zones are, and the particulars of flying there. One of the other members should be there this afternoon so I will be heading down to go check it out and maybe get a flight in if conditions allow. I want to be able to hike to the top and fly to the bottom a few times whenever I go so I can get as much practice as possible before going to larger hills.

I have been too town already but it was just to drop empties. It sounded like there was to be a bunch more grain out but it appears yesterday was all of it. It's not all bad as I got gas on my way home which I needed and hit the place that is 25 cents cheaper than everywhere else. Today I have more seeds to replant, have weedeating that has to get done, I need to deal with the rhubarb, then hopefully get in a flight this afternoon.

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