A tractor, A Fox, and the dirt

After months of being down and lazy, I'm finally working more on my farm again. Happy me. This morning I went to prep my field for wheat planting and found that there was much more to do than I thought. So... I'm NOW ready to do the part I wanted to start at 8AM, which is hook up my little disk harrow and prepare the seedbed for the wheat. But it turns out that the weeds/grass were too think where nothing had been planted this summer (corn was supposed to go there) and I had to mow, then plow it first. In order to get the plow out of the barn, I had to put a whole lot of stuff away. I'm feeling the effects of not working much, and my back and shoulders hurt from plowing (yes, I know it looks like just driving the tractor, but it's not got power steering, and the plow controls are very fussy).

In the process of all this, I saw a beautiful red fox. Sorry, no picture, I really need to remember to strap a camera to the tractor all the time... The fox took a drink from the pond, and I bet he was eyeing my layer chickens. Alice reported seeing Pedro Dog chase a fox away on Friday.

Now I'm off to play in the dirt some more.