Just a few cucumbers and tomatoes were ready in the greenhouse.

In my preparation for the wood cover I began to drag a railroad tie across the farm but when I dropped it to reposition the hooks I saw the gaping hole in the middle of it. It was rotted out in a pretty big area and I decided it best to NOT use it for anything structural. The 2 ties will now just be for landscaping around the gear shed.

The amaranth had done well this year, all volunteers. I grabbed a big tub and began breaking off all the flower/seed heads and piling them in.

I completely filled the tub with all the heads then took the tub to the deck where I crunched each head in my hand and shook out a bunch of seed into the tub as I shifted the heads to a different tub.

I got a big pile of seed and flowers in the bottom of the tub, well over a pound of the ultra tiny little seeds.

The flowers still had a LOT of seed left in them so I hauled the tub around the farm and crumbled the flowers to spread the seeds EVERYWHERE.

I really hope the stuff explodes in growth next year and we have towering stalks of purple all around the farm. The insane amount of seeds will do well for the wildlife too.

I had gone up to the garden shed to get a trenching shovel for the wood cover work and I opened the door to find this little guy stretched out on the floor. It was a rather small gopher snake that I picked up and found to be pencil thin. Just a young one that I set down just outside the shed and it slithered right back under the wall and inside. Quite happy to have it in the shed where I know there are mice.

So then the rest of my day was spent on the wood cover build. First I had to dig up each of 4 t-posts that were locked in place behind the wood pallets.

Then it was post hole digging time. The front posts all got set to 7 feet at the top.

I locked the end post to the carport edge as a means of providing some rigidity to the structure.

The 12 foot lengths got lifted atop the posts and screwed down. I back filled around the posts and got them standing pretty straight.

The boys got home from school and after a while they went to take the tom turkey across the creek to his new home.

They went the way long way around but got him there.

One of the top logs needed to be hacked down so I had room for the next one to sit atop the post.

The front 36 feet is up. They are not the most sturdy right now but are standing. This close end will get attached to the pine tree then the middle posts will get crossed 2x4s to make the center fairly rigid.

The whole thing is sloped towards the house but with the slope to the back I shouldn't get anything running towards the house.

In order to dig the post holes in the back I had to remove the length of fence. Really really good quality, old thick wire fence. The kind they don't make anymore. I got 3 holes dug by the time @stryeyz got home from work.

While they worked on dinner I got the yard lights moved to the front of the structure. I will likely have to move them later but for now we have them up and it looks better than they did.

Soaking was really needed with all the work during the day. Quite the knots in my back.

Boys are to school already and my day will be all about the wood cover after my meander through the garden.

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