Thanksgiving with the family was great, and we had a memorial service for Laura at the family cemetery. It had been a long time since we were all together and it ended way too soon... But everyone has their life to get back to.
We then spent another week taking care of the built-up chores around the farm. Our forester had thinned one section of the pines earlier in the fall and it was nice to walk around in that tract with all the open space and light now getting in. Even with it being as dry as its been, the areas around the creek were still too wet, so I couldn't walk the property along it.
We did get one really nice sunset over the cotton field while we were there. The beginning:
Later, zoomed in to the bright part:
It was also cool to see the preparation for another tract that we are going to plant in longleaf next fall. In case you don't know, longleaf pine is amazing. Gary gave us a book about it (Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest) and I have fallen in love and now see longleaf pines everywhere!
The machine that they used to knock down and cut up the scrub trees that have grown up since the last harvest of this tract was pretty amazing, well at least to me. Here's a short video of it at work:
That big drum chops up the trees into 6" long pieces and aerates the ground.We are also raking and selling the pine straw in an older tract.
We ate at every fish place in the area and visited with cousins, and I was able to work (emails and Zoom) from there as long as I kept my video off.
We left to visit friends half-way down Florida in Melbourne on Saturday morning, so you can see that drive below. We will hang out with them on Sunday and then start the first of our west-bound segment to Sugar Land Texas on Monday morning.
The drive to Melbourne was uneventful and we were met with steaks and (probably too many) beers.
Here's the trip so far:
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