Often life is lived in pieces, and sometimes you need to switch things up.

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I have spent the last few days grinding a lot of stumps down on my land whenever I had the opportunity. However, yesterday afternoon I decided to take a break from the daily grind and see if I could scrape by.

For those of you who don’t know, I’m having some fun with a bit of wordplay there.

TIME TO SCRAPE

While I am not completely done grinding all of the stumps in the driveway, I have enough done to be able to get our shipping container in. To start with, I needed to swap out the stump grinder for an angle blade. Now that the stumps are down far enough, I can scrape the topsoil and debris off to get the driveway reading for road base.

T-shirt worn by @papa-pepper provided by @jacobts

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@Mobile-joat, who does a lot of my mechanical work for me, drove by and offered up some advice and help, so we got started.

Once we had the stump grinder off, we had to hook up the scraper. The scraper hooked up to the tractor just fine, but it still needed to be welded to reinforce it.

Although I did get some cool photos of the welding, @mobile-joat was actually getting some real work done and making sure that equipment would be tough enough for me to abuse for a bit.

READY TO GO

Soon, I had the tractor back down on the land with my new tool hooked up and ready to work. I was mostly just getting used to it and testing it out.

It did a good job and handled quite well. I wanted to make a few light passes to try to get the job started. The majority of the work I’ll be doing today, and I already put in some time this morning. Perhaps I’ll even get in some road base before the end of the day!

Yesterday I took Pinky-Pepper and Red-Pepper down with me to the land to work. They had fun riding in the tractor, but they had to do a lot of rock picking too. Those are two tough girls that we are raising there, and they can be some really hard workers. Yesterday I worked them long and hard… perhaps too long and too hard…

Just look at that! Red-pepper asleep on the job! You can get fired for that some places! Of course, you would probably need to be older than five and actually getting paid, but still!

Pinky-Pepper and @papa-pepper did take a few funny photos of Red-Pepper sleeping, but we let her enjoy her nap for a bit. Obviously, we have our work cut out for us, but a family that works together gets a lot done!

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THANKS GIRLS!

I could not have done it all on my own!

As always, I'm @papa-pepper and here's the proof:

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Until next time…

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