Amish hay loaderMust hurry to make full use of the weather we are having...just about the first good weather of the summer. The boss is baling.
Chopping.
Working on machinery.
Not this machinery...this is a horsedrawn hay rake some Amishmenleft parked near here. They are hustling after hay too.
Yesterday Liz and I cleaned calf stalls and led calves. The last part was fun. I love training them to lead, even if they will never be show cows, like Northstar. They are so much nicer to handle when they are older if they are handled when young. I got to do something I have always wanted to do...lead an own daughter of SWD Valiant. I always wanted one, back in the day, but could never afford to buy one. Last year the kids went to the OHM Sale and bought some semen, and I got a heifer calf off old Beausoleil. Her name is Bastille, but I am calling her Tilly. (For you old time Holstein folks, we also have daughters of Straight Pine Elevation Pete (milking and calves) Citation R Maple (ditto), a milking Cal-Clark Board Chairman and two Whirlhill Kingpin daughters. I'll bet we are one of very few herds that do.)
Then I froze some beets. Kept on catching up on the laundry I couldn't dry all summer...no dryer so it is the line or the bars.
Did books.
Built a new fire (thanks FC, you are still helping me with that job.)
Helped unload a wagon of bales.
Milked without the usual compliment of helpers....fair week, vacation week, folks away at college.
Today more of the same, but with zucchini this time.
Not complaining though. If I could bottle this weather and stretch it out I would do it.
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I sure wish we could bottle this weather!!!
Now you have given me my lift that I needed today! I'm ready to get to work! Thanks!!!
Great post - it starting to rain here, so maybe you will get some dry weather now, at least enough to get in some decent chop.
I hope I can get some more Valiant and maybe some Board Chairman or Bootmaker this year...Hope hope hope...And more Roy...And maybe this year the James and Morty won't go for more than the list price :)
Amen on the weather! best week of the summer by far. Lots of sunshine, dry air, and not too darn hot.
I wish I could send you nice weather. Sadly the farmer's almanc is forcasting a cold winter.
http://www.farmersalmanac.com/weather/a/frigid-2010-forecast-how-cold-will-the-winter-weather-be
Linda
http://coloradofarmlife.wordpress.com
Kept on catching up on the laundry I couldn't dry all summer...no dryer so it is the line or the bars.
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When you use the bars do you find there's a lingering scent of old beer? :-P
LIsa, I could take this all week for two weeks straight, then a little bit of rain...just a little mind you...then another two weeks!
Melissa, thanks for your kind words.
Nita, thanks, we have actually had an entire dry week, which has been wonderful, delightful, fabulous...I could go on and on.
Liz, I like the Valiants as much as I thought I would. And the Roy.
Joated, we have been loving it. We needed a break from that rain for sure
Linda, thanks, we have had one week of good weather and we have used the heck out of it. I haven't even made it to the fair yet and it is less than a mile away!
June, Hah! Not yet, but you never know. rofl
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