This time of year is both sad and exciting. Sad that my flowers are quickly dying back on one hand but on the other hand I'm excited just thinking about next year's planting choices.
Gear Acres Landscape 2017 was a year of finally checking off several items that have been on my 'to do' list for a long long time. Sometimes I put a 'to do' chore on my list even if I know that the time isn't right. An example is.....rent a stump grinder. We finally cut down the last dead tree in 2016, so this was the year to rent the stump grinder.
The most economical method is to rent by the day and not rent by the hour. So it only made sense to grind all the stumps on the same day. OR in our case to rent on Friday evening and have it back by 9am on Monday. But since we rented on Labor Day weekend we got an extra day and had to have it back by 9am on Tuesday for a one day charge.
The stump grinder has an hour meter on it and if we had exceeded the 24 hours we would need to pay the extra time at the hour rental fee. But we didn't exceed it and in the end it was just the $400 charge for 1 day but we had 3 days to do it.
Now I know you are thinking 400 bucks is CHEAP????? In this area the going rate is 75 bucks per average size stump. We had two stumps that were huge and at least 3 times the average tree stump so let's say those would run $150 each which comes to $300.00. There were an additional 11 stumps, plus one in my son's yard......12 X $75= $900 + $300 (2 lg stumps) =$1200 - $400 (rental cost) = $800 savings. FYI We did not exceed 24hrs on the meter. We were close but did not exceed.
You will end up with a piles of wood chips and dirt after you grind. We worked on raking the chips out of the dirt and leveling the dirt over the next week. It went slow because we had an extreme heat wave and the temps were in the high 90's which is very strange for September.
We finished leveling and raking the loose dirt smooth and then threw down some grass seed. It has not rained more than a few drops since then so we are spritzing the grass seed several times a day and it has started to grow.
Last Thursday we thought we would get the much needed rain that we have been missing for the last month. The sky got real dark and it started to sprinkle hard and then the sun came out and we were rewarded with the most glorious double rainbow I have ever seen.
When I first noticed the rainbow, I thought it was just a regular rainbow until I walked behind the barn and saw this.....
....but it gets better. It was a double rainbow. The top rainbow didn't photograph well but it was there. Two complete full rainbows.
The color was so intense and very vivid. Normally you just see the red to orange to yellow to green bands of color but this rainbow also had a bottom band of blue to violet to pink.
It was spectacular and then it was gone and I went back to watering my grass seed.
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