Actually got a lot done today outside. For some reason the pollen wasn't as bad as predicted, maybe because there was little if any wind to stir it up. I took advantage of the calm and dry weather to finally burn a large brush pile at the far edge of my yard. I had cleaned out a pine thicket, with the tractor and loader, pushing it up in a pile to burn back in the fall, but the weather has been so uncooperative that I couldn't set it on fire. At least it was dry enough that there isn't a lot left to push up. From there I moved to spraying our Long Leaf Pine. Sadly we've developed some serious Pine Beetle problems. Not sure that the spray will save them at this point, but I really hate to lose several thousand dollars of prime timber. Another 5 years and they would be ready for harvest, as salvage they go to the chip plant for cheap.
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