Hay and Gardening
Jun. 11th, 2009 12:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
helwenHelped move 170+ bales today. Most went into a mow for now, and 50 into a truck to go to a customer. Then went to pick a few strawberries -- not a whole lot yet, but we only want to share so many with our outdoor neighbors ;)
The grass we didn't get out of the bed before it became unsafe to continue (without risking damage/disruption to the strawberries) had gotten lodged what with all the rain and wind, so I got out a pair of hand clippers and shortened the grass around them. Now they should get more sunlight and I may try to dry out the cuttings for a saunders mat.
A saunders mat is a high quality archery target mat, made by wrapping up straw/hay into a long tube and then coiling it around like one of those braided rugs you may have seen. They're very expensive. Building construction foam can also be used, but people with more powerful bows have problems with them because the friction heat from the arrow head sticking into the foam sometimes causes them to fuse together.
I got a blister on the side of my left thumb from doing too much clipping, sigh. Darn 'lady hands'.... they're useful for lots of things, but they don't form calluses worth a damn. Someday I'll train myself to always use gloves when I should.... oh well. At least I have strawberries :)
The grass we didn't get out of the bed before it became unsafe to continue (without risking damage/disruption to the strawberries) had gotten lodged what with all the rain and wind, so I got out a pair of hand clippers and shortened the grass around them. Now they should get more sunlight and I may try to dry out the cuttings for a saunders mat.
A saunders mat is a high quality archery target mat, made by wrapping up straw/hay into a long tube and then coiling it around like one of those braided rugs you may have seen. They're very expensive. Building construction foam can also be used, but people with more powerful bows have problems with them because the friction heat from the arrow head sticking into the foam sometimes causes them to fuse together.
I got a blister on the side of my left thumb from doing too much clipping, sigh. Darn 'lady hands'.... they're useful for lots of things, but they don't form calluses worth a damn. Someday I'll train myself to always use gloves when I should.... oh well. At least I have strawberries :)
