It was quite an eventful weekend at the Hamilton Acres.  It all started with me taking Friday off to do a little work around the place.  Little did I know that a 50 MPH wind and a cold front were rollin’ in and it would make my day not so fun working outside.  But, I prevailed.  I tilled up a garden spot about 80ft X 80ft out in the old corral area beside the barn.  Tillin’ this black ground was not too easy, but I bought a tiller at a farm sale about 2 years ago that wasn’t running.  It is a big 6 HP rear-tine tiller and it took me about an hour of work to get it up and running like a beast.  So, we have onion sets and potatoes to plant this week and we plan on planting corn, tomatoes, green beans, peas, okra, yellow squash, lettuce & zucchini so we need all the space we can get.  (pics will follow when plants are in the ground)

The next big event…was on saturday.  I got up at 7am to go to Ft Worth and pick up a load of lumber that I’m using to make my friend’s baby furniture.  As soon as I got back, my friend Brian Weir and his father-in-law, Mark, were here to help me chop out the mammoth hackberry stump that had grown for years right up against the foundation where we will be adding the add-on.  The stump measured about 24″ in diameter and was SOLID.  So, we took at it with chainsaws and 2 axes and a whole lot of manliness.  After almost 3 hours of work, we had the tree about 70% chopped out to 4″ below ground level.  And that is where it sits now…I will finish it this week (because the foundation goes in in 2 weeks!).  Below is a pic of Brian in what I like to call his “axe murderer stance”.  Brian is holding his prized wood chunk of the day.  With one powerful blow, a 6″ chunk of wood flew off and Brian was pleased.  (note the giant tree stump by his left foot)