Next stop, Plantation Station

Ready to fence!

I replaced one of the 4 foot gates with a 10 foot gate and since it was so long, I wound up having to keep the gates set back in their original spot. If I had moved them forward, they wouldn't swing in toward the pasture because of a small incline in the land, and it would swing into the road the other way.

This goober rock was about 3 feet down in the hole - I could barely reach it with my short arms! I did manage to get a rope around it and pulled it up that way.

The new incarnation of my fence is going to be beefy compared to the old one. I've gone from 6 foot, 3.5 inch round posts to 8 foot, 4 inch square pressure treated timbers.

Gotta love digging in New Hampshire. I swear, this land is 80% rocks, 15% ledge, and 5% pleasantly diggable materials.

Preparing to move my fence about 3 feet out toward the road.

This summer I've tried to section off the pasture into three areas to prevent overgrazing and allow for mowing to keep the weeds down. I have a long section of step in posts that I can pull up and move to block off areas for a few weeks at a time. It would have worked much better if the drought hadn't had such a devastating effect on the grass.

Halfway through summer it began to be evident that we were seriously lacking rainfall. Unfortunately, most of the summer was hot and dry, and the results were disastrous for many big farms around New England.

Prepped and seeded!