Been playing catchup for the past week. Mrs. Augie and I took off on the 1st for some badly-needed vacation time. We spent a couple days touristing around the Great Smokie Mountains National Park. From there we took off to Myrtle Beach, where we were planning to spend a week laying on the sand relaxing. Mother Nature had other plans though, which didn't hurt our feelings because the place is a dump. It was the filthiest beach we'd ever seen. Absolutely disgusting. Anyway, we spent one night, cancelled the rest of our reservation, and bailed out of there at 6:45pm on the 4th. We rolled into Fort Pickens State Part in Pensacola Beach, FL at 5:00am on Wednesday. Watched the sunrise on the beach without another soul in sight. Spent four nights there and had a great time. Got home at 1:15am on the 10th and have been nose to the grindstone ever since.
Still have okra, green beans and tomatoes going in the garden. Need to get the garlic and winter greens planted, and finish cleanup in the tomato patch to get ready for fall plowing. The back food plot is done. I fertilized and limed it, then sowed wheat and turnip for winter browse.
I spent Friday evening and Saturday morning making some repairs to the post hole digger, then commenced to building some board fence. Got that little bit done yesterday afternoon. I've got another 100' to do on the other side of the barn next weekend if the weather remains suitable to that kind of thing, and that will complete the fencing projects for the time being.
I'm fairly well pleased with the way this turned out. It's much more attractive than the hotwire fence that it replaced.
