Katch Up with Karol: Aug 19 - Auntie Mavis Day

This morning was a cool and pleasant day on the farm, before 8, only 58 degrees. First offer to Tom to help with chores didn’t score but then he found me in house and he had come up with a plan. If I would walk and sprinkle fertilizer between 8 rows of new corn coming up that he would follow me and till it into the ground. Works for me! It did take me longer to walk and fertilize the length of both sides of 4 rows then it would for Tom to be able to work the fertilizer in 4 rows with the tractor but he was patient and waited for me. Took no time at all!

Left the farm about 10:30 to drive the 35 minutes to pick up Aunty Mavis for lunch, a little grocery shopping and best of all a lovely visit! She is amazing at age 97!

Tom and I had talked in the morning about doing a dual push on mowing Auntie Mavis’ farm before the rains coming the next couple of days. So we headed over my driving the Kubota tractor with its mower (high speed of about 5mph to drive 2 miles!) Tom drove a tractor over to pick up his truck, which he had left there in the morning when picking up a tractor to come back, and hook up the trailer with the zero turn Zipper loaded. While all that was happening I started mowing a large area, he returned and mowed a couple of section and then the last area we did at the same time as he trimmed around the edge, I followed his path with my mower. We weee able to complete the process in under 2 hours! AND it was perfect weather with clouds keeping the temperatures to the high 70s! My kind of weather!

Unfortunately for Joni she was laying low all day with severe headaches that are still an issue yet this evening. Poor dear!

I ventured out with Tom for a new experience for supper! We ate at the one restaurant in town, Allison’s Kitchen, which is located at the local town nursing home! Yep, it closed a couple years ago and this spring Allison moved from her previous location to the spacious nursing home using their entry way (with various gifts), previous activity room (now a bar), dining room (restaurant seating), and of course the well equipped kitchen. It really was nice and much needed in this small town! My grilled spicy chicken sandwich was delicious!