Yesterday we worked up at the farm doing some spring cleaning. We got a fire going and burnt all the brush and pine needles that were in the yard and flower beds. Mom worked on weeding the flower beds while dad worked on loading up scrap metal onto our the trailer. We started to dig out one of the flower beds by the house because it over time has just sunken and looked like a mound of dirt. Dad used the sod he dug up and brought it up to the house where the chickens have dug holes. Today, Saturday, dad brought in the load of scrap to the scrap yard. He left and then Josh was here to plant trees and shrubs. He came by on Wednesday and dug the holes already, so all that has to be done is the planting. A bunch of volunteers showed up to help him get the trees in the ground. They planted them along the crick because they want to shade the water to keep it cool so trout will want to be there and also because this water flows into the Coldwater, so they want it to be cold when it gets there. The Coldwater River Watershed Council and Shrems West Michigan Trout Unlimited were the ones who did this project. I helped out by driving the trees out to the holes with the side by side instead of them wheeling one out at time in their wheelbarrow. Dad brought back the old skids from the farm on a trailer and got a fire going back in the woods. After the tree stuff was done I brought everyone back to the shack where Josh cooked brats and hot dogs for the helpers. While we had a bunch of people back there, we used their strength to help us get the back pan and hood out of the shack and onto trailers. I brought people back up and then I went back to the woods and got the trailer with the hood on it and brought it to the farm. Dad had brought the back pan up already. At the farm I got the pressure washer hooked up and then started to pressure wash the back pan. I came home later because my grandparents were here. I took them on a ride to see the trees they planted and also go through the woods. Dad finished pressure washing the pan and hood and then he also threw all the chafe from one side of the barn over to the other so I could feed it to my cows. Later we went to the pancake supper over at the firehouse in Alto. We came home and then I went up to the farm and fed the cows some bales of hay and also fed Margie her scoop of grain.
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