Ranching by numbers
Everyday that I'm out here at the Windmill Ranch I have about a dozen new chores and countless other daily things I gotta get done.
Most times, it's just me. Sometimes, Max helps. Or there's Tina. I haven't told you about her yet. We hired her as a ranch house keeper. She's become soooo much more than that. First of all, She's more of a dust control engineers. Secondly, she's strong and a very hard worker.
But like I said, most times it's just me. So, I've developed a weird, maybe obsessive compulsive, method to pass the time.
For example, it takes 16 shovel loads to fill up my wheelbarrow or my dump truck as Max calls it. That's 16 shovels of gravel, but it's 20 shovels of sand and 19 shovels of mulch.
More numbers... it takes 35-50 whacks with a two pound sledge to drive a stake 4" into the ground. It takes three blasts from an air hammer to secure a brace to a stake.
If you're planting grass, it takes 15 minutes to water a 35 square foot area.. two hours to water all the new grass.
Six thousand pounds... that's how much flagstone I personally moved (piece by piece) to form the back patio on the pavilion. Believe or not, my back didn't hurt until I started sweeping in sand between the cracks.
Seven tenths, one and a half inches and a half inch.. that's the amount of rainfall we've had in the recent days.
4:35am... that's the time I finally got to bed last week when a massive storm rolled into the region and I had to stay awake to be prepared for the 'just in case.'
Right now... I'm wondering why I didn't do better in high school math classes.
Bill Robertson
Most times, it's just me. Sometimes, Max helps. Or there's Tina. I haven't told you about her yet. We hired her as a ranch house keeper. She's become soooo much more than that. First of all, She's more of a dust control engineers. Secondly, she's strong and a very hard worker.
But like I said, most times it's just me. So, I've developed a weird, maybe obsessive compulsive, method to pass the time.
For example, it takes 16 shovel loads to fill up my wheelbarrow or my dump truck as Max calls it. That's 16 shovels of gravel, but it's 20 shovels of sand and 19 shovels of mulch.
More numbers... it takes 35-50 whacks with a two pound sledge to drive a stake 4" into the ground. It takes three blasts from an air hammer to secure a brace to a stake.
If you're planting grass, it takes 15 minutes to water a 35 square foot area.. two hours to water all the new grass.
Six thousand pounds... that's how much flagstone I personally moved (piece by piece) to form the back patio on the pavilion. Believe or not, my back didn't hurt until I started sweeping in sand between the cracks.
Seven tenths, one and a half inches and a half inch.. that's the amount of rainfall we've had in the recent days.
4:35am... that's the time I finally got to bed last week when a massive storm rolled into the region and I had to stay awake to be prepared for the 'just in case.'
Right now... I'm wondering why I didn't do better in high school math classes.
Bill Robertson
posted by Windmill Ranch @ 7:57 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home