Labor Day weekend '09

Had a large group at the Rancho this weekend-Punk, Dean, Julie, Laura Lee and Mark, Kyle, Laura, Blake and Leigh. Plus 4 dogs.
Good to have Julie in Texas, again. We missed Bronwyn, Ailie, Mike and John. Temperatures cooled nicely-highs in the mid-90s, and Saturday had a good bit of cloud cover and cooled off well in the evening.

Saturday, Dean mowed Punk's pasture and Dean and Kyle started checking fence around the Back 40. Found a large break where cows had escaped 3 weeks ago and repaired that. Got Mark's help on Sunday, but it took through Monday morning to get all the way to the Northwest corner, but the fence is up all the way now. Dean and Kyle also worked over the fences between Nonnie's Pasture and Little House and Plum Patch to make sure the cows don't try to get into the hay meadows before it's cut again.

On Sunday we completed the Mow-a-thon by mowing Nonnie's Pasture and the Central Pasture. Tractor spit and sputtered occasionally, but it made it.

Mark and Dean purchased and installed a drip irrigation system with 4 drops for the orchard. Works great. Each drop exudes 2 gallons per hour. Leigh painted a sign that says "Lorrayne's Orchard" and we installed it on the corner of the orchard.

Mark did killer fried catfish and french fries on Saturday. Kyle, Dean and Laura worked on Green Door songs Saturday night during second half of Texas game with ULM. (Julie thought they were playing the little town towards LaGrange! We had hamburgers on Sunday night after all the crew, save Punk and Jules, spent an hour at the Green Door.

Dean negotiated a date at the Green Door for The Berliners-November 14.

Laura and Leigh reworked the beds by the Cantina and the circle where the tree stump for the hammock was-keeping a tribute to Megan. They also cleaned up the Cantina and around it. Good work!

Dan is going to take our 3 heifers to the Vet for dehorning, Bangs Vaccine and worming.

A good weekend-very fund and we got a lot done.