Harvests, Trailer Tires, Soil - Thursday

I'm glad I don't go off the pick list that was emailed to me yesterday morning, I log into the site and check my orders. The email said only 65 cucumbers but the actual order is for the 65 cucs and 80 pounds of beans. I feel like it is likely the email is sent on east coast time and Carl was still inputting orders after 9pm our time. None the less I had the orders that I needed to fill.

The squash were the first to be picked for the day and I got another 19 pounds. My average is down to 25.8 lbs/day from a high of 30. Hopefully the 120 pounds will sell for Tuesday.

In order to fulfill the 80 pound order for beans I had to go pick more after weighing what I had in the cooler. Normally I bag the beans to 10 pounds per but I was planning on having to bag half pounders myself so the bags in the cooler are 11 to 12.5 pounds each. With nearly 60 pounds picked I needed a couple buckets more. After picking each bucket gave me 12.5 pounds which gave me well more than enough for the 80 pounds.

Once I got the beans picked to fill the order I had to sort everything and ready it for delivery this morning. The labels got printed and applied to the boxes and I sorted the cucumbers so they are all in one box. I deliver them all here in the next couple of hours.

The trailer tires have been on their real last leg for a LONG time now. the axle is bent a bit which causes one tire to wear fast. The trailer is pretty bomb proof though and has hauled many many tons of hay and grain. The last trip into town I noticed upon picking up grain that one tire had started to delam. I managed to get home with it not blowing out but it took till yesterday for me to get it off.

I tossed the tire along with the matching rim into my truck and will take it by to have new ones mounted today on my way back from the co-op drop off.

I didn't get pics of it but the boys both decided to float test and wash a bunch of eggs that have been in the kitchen. They managed to get a dozen good in a carton and about a dozen bad which they quickly took out and broke in the chicken yard.

I let the sprinkler run on the freshly disturbed soil in a few areas of the yard. The tracks on the tractor do a number on the soil and turned it to a fine talc like powder. The irrigation helped to tamp it down a good bit. It rained a bit overnight so I am not needing to wet down the rest of the areas, nature did it for me.

@stryeyz went to the school board meeting for our district after work and I made dinner. The meeting went pretty well and we are feeling a bit better about the coming school year. It sounds like they are a bit more understanding of the frustration with masking kids and try to give a good amount of leeway. We will see how J feels after the first few days though.

This morning I am going to the co-op for drop off, then drop off the tires at the north Tirerama, pickup our grocery order, then I have to harvest more in the gardens. This afternoon is the Azure co-op pickup.