MercenaryD

A life of an amateur photographer

Work… in garden

MercenaryD | June 5, 2010

Well I’ve got a truck coming to finish up the last of the jobs I had this spring. Haul out the fire wood and deliver it to where it needs to go, and to pick up the equipment on the way back threw and deliver it to my place. Then I’ll finally be able to [...]

Wow, where to begin?

MercenaryD | May 31, 2010

Where oh where do I start? Its only been a little over a month since I wrote here but a lot has happened.
The job that I had, cleaning up the woods, have come to an end for the season. I cut a good 10+ face cord of wood the 4 days that I worked over [...]

More on work

MercenaryD | April 22, 2010

  Hard work that is. 5 hours with no breaks, except when you refill the chain saw. Well not quite that bad, there are 30 second breaks all the time. And it is only 2 days a week. And the person I’m working for, the land owner, is nice and good to work for. Too [...]

Working again or at least for a time

MercenaryD | April 15, 2010

I keep taking these long breaks between posts. But thats because I have been trying to be busy. I got a job that is putting some of the equipment I bought to work. Clearing out dead trees from a back yard. Its not the farming that I wanted to be doing but at least I’m [...]

Old “New” Equipment again

MercenaryD | March 19, 2010

I got the quote for the pump on the rider’s engine. $55.75 plus tax. For a tiny pump that can be lost in the palm of your hand…. dang…. So I looked it up online. $25.00 plus shipping, or about $33.00. Now theres a major difference! Why is it that if I go to the [...]

New Old Equipment

MercenaryD | October 25, 2009

The past few weeks I’ve been picking up some equipment to help me in expanding my gardening into small farming. The difference? Gardening is for personal use and farming is for profit. Not to say that a garden isn’t profitable, but one can’t make a living on just a garden even if one can live [...]

Missing Sign

MercenaryD | July 22, 2009

Last night, actually the night before, someone stole one of our signs from the corner of Rt. 7 and Main street in Sidney. They then took our Chamber of Commerce sign, a yellow sandwich board sign that we were using for advertising of a couple of events and through it in the Susquehanna river.
Yesterday evening [...]

Finally the expo pics

MercenaryD | July 17, 2009

  Last week I had gone to the John Deere tractor expo, and I had promised to tell of my thoughts after I had gotten back. But it was late and then I had to do other things — and one thing led to another, including putting my father in the hospital the other day. [...]

July 10th River Fest Photos

MercenaryD | July 12, 2009

Ok, I admit it I messed up. There were supposed to be a lot more photos than this, but I had my settings wrong on the camera so only a few came out with some quality to them.To those that expected to see more… I’m sorry.
We did get to hear some great music and chat [...]

Equipment Breakdowns

MercenaryD | June 30, 2009

No matter who you are, or what you do, (unless you have someone else to take care of you and your stuff) you will have them. The thing is whether ot not you can take care of it your self right?
Somethings yes, some no.
For the last, oh 2 months or so, I’ve been down to [...]