Sept on the Homestead

Once again, we are trying to get caught up on the blog.  

Here Ethan is doing some weed-wacking where we should have had green beans in our garden.

Lily was excited to help dig up the potatoes.  You can see some Yukon Gold peeking out of the dirt right by her hand.

Mia was raking the dirt back into the ditch where we dug out the potatoes.  It is always good to have your trusting pink shooter around when working outside.

The chickens snuck into the garden again.  They love to tear up our neatly placed newspaper with straw.

Couple of zucchi's and a turnip.

We pulled a few more stray fence posts, here Evan is wrapping the chain around the post and then we hook it onto the tractor bucket and pop it out of the ground.  At least most of the time, unless it has concrete around the base, then it is more work.

We also got a few posts in the ground for the new fence, but the ground was rock hard and it took me several hours just to dig two fence post holes.  In the fall and spring the ground was soft enough that the boys could even dig them.  Here we are mixing concrete to put around the post.  We don't concrete all of them, just the ones that might support a gate, or take more pressure from the fence.  The others I typically fill with gravel and compact.