I've been digging up and pulling out a few stumps in the orchard area. I'm doing this mainly because the hose gets caught on them when I head out that way to water the blueberry transplants. Things were going fine until the last stump, then I encountered more buried glass. Unexpected buried glass. I had my hands around the stump to pull and got cut! There was glass intermingled with the roots of that stump. I bandaged up but had to finish the job, I couldn't leave exposed glass for the chickens and ducks to potentially get into. I had to go back to it and ended up with half a bucketful of glass and a rusty old hinge when I followed this latest glass trail. When I was sure as I could be that all the glass was cleared I cleaned up very well and rebandaged the cuts. Only one is deep and it's not too terrible just sore. I may just take the rest of the day off. Before the glass incident I had made a nice sitting area for the birds. In the morning they like to gather on an old fallen log. I added two more similar logs to that area so an even larger group can perch and gather comfortably if they so choose. I also dug up some areas of the run that have hardened dirt, by turning the dirt it encourages the birds to pick through that area and loosen it all up again. the area nearest the coop tends to harden quite a lot due to that being the most walked on area and also the build up of shavings in winter when I make paths through the snow with the shavings.
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| Glass and a hing, what on earth was buried here long ago? |
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| Glass and stumps all cleaned up from this area now it's safe for the birds to peck and look through. |
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| New improved morning meeting area for the chickens, will they use it all? |
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| A pitchfork is good for loosening the hardened dirt nearest the coop. |
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| Birds enjoying their day. |
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