Its been awhile since I last posted, I have been busy.
Been sucking up leaves, have 40 cart loads done, all the fruit trees and nut trees have been mulched, as well as the flower beds, and the garden has a large pile ready to be put in my new huglebed. I went to Kansas City for the wedding of an old friend, made a little vacation out of the trip. Visited Lincoln's museum in Springfield, Mark Twains cave, visited Hannibal Mo, went to Independence and saw Harry Truman's home and museum, and saw some old college friends at the wedding. It was a lovely trip. When I got home I really needed to suck up leaves, I got a good many loads done, and was mowing on the bank out front sucking leaves, something I have done for 30 years, got into some soft dirt on the low side and the 18hp tractor rolled over, throwing me onto the road and pinning my right leg under the machine. The mower blades were still on, and the tractor started to smoke badly from the oil going places it didn't belong. The mower shut off by itself, It took some time to free my leg, No one came by while I was on the road. When I got free I started to take a look and see how bad things were, as I did that I noticed some red spots on the road. I wondered at 1st what they could be, but then I looked down at my leg and saw that my sock and shoe was covered in blood. Went to the house and hollered for my wife to come [ I didn't want to drip blood all over the house ] turns out she was busy, so I called her again and this time she begrudging came to see what I wanted. I told her what had happened, she got me some paper towels, and asked several questions about the tractor etc, about her 3rd question was about my condition,
I guess that she could see that I was mobile. Got the mower turned upright with my big tractor and got it back to the garage to see what damage I had. Put the vac system back together and tried to straighten the carts hitch. It broke of from metal fatigue. Got my neighbor to weld it for me so I could finish the day. His welding lasted about 13 loads before it broke again and the cart up set again. This time I had a guy I know well make me a new part and re-weld the hitch. It should work well now. I am almost done with the leaves now, we have had a lot of wind here so I will get about 10 loads less than normal, and that is alright with me, lol. My leg is healing OK , it still hurts some. I should have gone and gotten a stitch or 2, it was a pretty deep cut, but I was in a hurry. Oh well, it will heal.
I have most of the dirt out of the hole for my next huglebed, its a little over 10' X 10" and I am getting a lot of rocks out of the garden. I will put down the logs next and get a load of horse poop to put down deep in the hole. Always something to do when you have property. lol