Chores

Driveway urgently needs scraping.  Well, it urgently needs re-grading and re-graveling, but scraping will just have to do for now.

This means taking the tiller off the tractor and putting the box blade on.

There's been a dribble of oil on the floor under the tiller's chaincase.  Investigate.  Yes, it needs oil added.  Also, it needs a bunch of bolts tightened.  Adding oil is no big deal, once I get the bottle open; darn thing has near as many seals as Ingmar Bergman, and there's no lamb handy.  Tightening the bolts is more Fun; the nuts are on the other side of the frame, some of them quite inaccessible, and they're not of the captive persuasion.  I manage to get most of the bolts tightened, including all the ones near the bottom that seem to need it.

Then out to the side of the barn to remove the tiller; that goes almost smoothly.  Then to pick up the box blade; that gets more complicated than it should, on account of the implement having sunk into the soft dirt.  Eventually I manage to get it hitched up and out of there.

Then much driveway-scrapery, plus some shovel work to get gravel off a low spot on the grass and back onto the driveway (it wasn't practical to use either the box blade or the loader for that part).  And much driving back and forth in an effort to compact the gravel-dirt mix.

Then it's time to put the tractor away, mow yet another patch of lawn, and head back indoors to deal with indoors stuff.