Beautiful Weekend! Summer has at last arrived in Northern MN. Temps in the mid to upper 70's, sunny skies, occasional t-storms, and now MOSQUITOES are here.

We got the new pasture fence completed Saturday, a huge relief. Finished off the last bale of hay Friday night. We cut some hay Saturday morning, gave it to the animals, and then set out to finish the fence before the hay ran out. Had to run to town twice for supplies, but we did it.

Fan belt broke on the WC last week. To replace it you must remove the lower radiator hose. So, we ordered both upper and lower hoses from Steiner Tractor, as well as the fan belt and a carb rebuild kit. We are hoping they will arrive before the weekend so that will be the main project next weekend

Spent part of Sunday crushing the old fence into the old topper shell. We put the shell upside down on the big trailer and Matt is filling it with scrap metal. Even though we gave away a LOT of scrap metal last year, I figure we might still be able to make 3 or 4 trailer loads, all of which will go towards his Europe trip.

Worked on the garden a little bit, it is now well plowed, well disked, and fairly level. It would be nicer if we could till it. $33 to rent a walk behind tiller overnight. Might consider it.

Still don't have my shop organized yet.

Gas was still at 3.899 this morning.

Mostly sunny and 61 outside, so says the NWS. I haven't been outside in 6 hours.