and only so much time.
Mother Nature has been kind to us Northern folks, we've had record high temps. And dear, slave driving relentless, stubborn, hubby has had us working round the clock.
Take for instance the past two weeks, give or take a day or two.
This is what has been accomplished:
Hubby has normal job, 40/hrs per week, and had an additional 42 hours OT, and I worked regular job 40/hrs per week.
Loaded fill in and prepped a pad for cement. Built the forms. Tore down 2 corn cribs, hauled them to the farm and erected them.
Had daughters confirmation and party.
Had shale brought in and took care of all the low spots cattle were wearing down.
Hubby worked at wiring his bro's new shed 19 hours.
Hubby and I worked at neighbors 12 hours and put in a new 200 amp panel in his house, buried 250 feet of wire to his shed. Hubby then hooked up the shed, and moved the yard light to the shed to get rid of an extra transformer, meter socket, and pole from the neighbors yard.
built the corral for the yard beef. Caught, (hehe what a story THAT is), the 6 yard beef, hauled them to the farm, separated the 2 heifers out and sold them at auction.
Ran all the cows and bull through for deworming. Had the vet out, cut the bull calves, vaccinated and dewormed them.
Set the corrals up for the feed out of the fats.
I AM EXHAUSTED.
The to do list is still long, but it is looking good.
Major things left:
One stretch of fence needs to be replaced before winter, and of course corn picking, which is hubby's favorite of all farm jobs, so that is not even like work for him, I know, he's cracked in the head.
His latest comment:
"I need to go back to work to rest up"
Nut, nut, nut.
O and damage report from working cattle:
One twisted ankle.... he suffered through the day with minor ill effects.
One sprained elbow, no clue how I did that one, but the next morning I sure felt it.
One cow did not get dewormed as she was the last one to do, found out she was the last one, and high tailed it over the gate. Gate has a nice kink in it.
This of course led to the husband rant about how no corral should be built under 12 foot tall, and we will double the gates one on top of another, and then watch them "hateful beasts" bounce off and blah, blah, blah.... at this point the selective hearing turned on and I have no idea what else what was said.
The farm shed is a mess, and I really should be there instead of on here cleaning all the tools, misc items, etc etc and getting them put away. But it is raining off and on, kind of dreary, and this chair is feeling GOOD!
How many others are having that fall push to get things done? Or are we procrastinators? I don't feel like we are, but every fall, it seems like we have a big push. UGH.
Michele
Mother Nature has been kind to us Northern folks, we've had record high temps. And dear, slave driving relentless, stubborn, hubby has had us working round the clock.
Take for instance the past two weeks, give or take a day or two.
This is what has been accomplished:
Hubby has normal job, 40/hrs per week, and had an additional 42 hours OT, and I worked regular job 40/hrs per week.
Loaded fill in and prepped a pad for cement. Built the forms. Tore down 2 corn cribs, hauled them to the farm and erected them.
Had daughters confirmation and party.
Had shale brought in and took care of all the low spots cattle were wearing down.
Hubby worked at wiring his bro's new shed 19 hours.
Hubby and I worked at neighbors 12 hours and put in a new 200 amp panel in his house, buried 250 feet of wire to his shed. Hubby then hooked up the shed, and moved the yard light to the shed to get rid of an extra transformer, meter socket, and pole from the neighbors yard.
built the corral for the yard beef. Caught, (hehe what a story THAT is), the 6 yard beef, hauled them to the farm, separated the 2 heifers out and sold them at auction.
Ran all the cows and bull through for deworming. Had the vet out, cut the bull calves, vaccinated and dewormed them.
Set the corrals up for the feed out of the fats.
I AM EXHAUSTED.
The to do list is still long, but it is looking good.
Major things left:
One stretch of fence needs to be replaced before winter, and of course corn picking, which is hubby's favorite of all farm jobs, so that is not even like work for him, I know, he's cracked in the head.
His latest comment:
"I need to go back to work to rest up"
Nut, nut, nut.
O and damage report from working cattle:
One twisted ankle.... he suffered through the day with minor ill effects.
One sprained elbow, no clue how I did that one, but the next morning I sure felt it.
One cow did not get dewormed as she was the last one to do, found out she was the last one, and high tailed it over the gate. Gate has a nice kink in it.
This of course led to the husband rant about how no corral should be built under 12 foot tall, and we will double the gates one on top of another, and then watch them "hateful beasts" bounce off and blah, blah, blah.... at this point the selective hearing turned on and I have no idea what else what was said.
The farm shed is a mess, and I really should be there instead of on here cleaning all the tools, misc items, etc etc and getting them put away. But it is raining off and on, kind of dreary, and this chair is feeling GOOD!
How many others are having that fall push to get things done? Or are we procrastinators? I don't feel like we are, but every fall, it seems like we have a big push. UGH.
Michele
;-) :lol2:
