He’s in Love

Posted on October 23, 2017 by farm2011

Now normally when your husband comes into the house and tells you that he’s in Love and he’s not really looking at you when he says it, you’re supposed to get all upset and everything right? 

Yea, not so much. On the farm this new found love could easily be with a  piece of equipment and guess what? Yup, that’s exactly what he was talking about! 

And guess what else? I knew exactly that’s where he was going with this conversation! 

See he’s been watching the farm sales this summer for a new auger to help load the grain into the bins. He really wanted one that’s easier to set up and to also easier to unload the corn & beans into. 

He found a perfect one and that’s why he’s got a new Love in his life! 

The new (to us) auger raises and lowers without cranking it and is so much more user friendly. I did get a little nervous though when he was securing it to the bins.

But without any problems, it was soon moving corn without any problems. 

Yup, it’s the simple things on the farm that sure make the days seem so much brighter! 

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What have I been doing?

Posted on October 22, 2017 by farm2011

I’m sure you’re wondering just what in the world have I been doing these past couple of weeks! Now honestly when I looked back at my last post I hardly could believe it was that long ago – but I guess it was. 

So what have I been doing this whole time? 

Well as usual just a little bit of everything!

I started out two weekends ago delivering soap. Yup, I’m sure that’s no surprise if you’ve read this Blog before. Last year at this time was very busy and well I’m hoping that history will repeat itself this Christmas season too! Now I don’t know if I’ve never really taken the time to look before when I’ve driven around in the Fall, but as I was driving to the store to make my delivery the fields really caught my eye. With a lot of the farmers in our area a couple of weeks behind getting all their crops out, there is a lot of corn left in the fields. It was really a pretty cool drive tonight and I kind of welcomed the solitude of it and just the peacefulness of what the Fall brings to our area. 

Next after the delivery it was time to go to an Art Show. Now I’ve never been to an Art Open House before and I must admit I had no idea what to expect. But since I’ve never been to one … well that’s the perfect reason to go right? So after a couple of batches of soap, I’ve got the car warmed up and heading out in the late afternoon. Daryl was in the field working on taking out the soybeans, so it was good timing to see what I could find. I figured that there should be something that I would like and I found way too many things that I would have liked. I finally decided on two pictures that ended up coming home with me. The first one will be a gift and the second one, well the second one is mine 🙂 It fits me Perfect! Now to just find the right spot to hang it. I was originally thinking of bringing it with me to work and hanging it up in my office, but for some reason I think the proper etiquette is to have ‘work’ themes on your wall. Well, we’ll just have to see about that. 

So other things that have I’ve been working on is to making a ton of Bath Bombs to deliver for an order

met up with some of my best friends for dinner and drinks

put together a couple of Halloween Bags

also put together a couple of Bath Bags for early Christmas gifts

went shopping with my Mom, who by the way has almost ALL her Christmas shopping done already!! 

went to my Niece’s baby’s Baptism, made a ton of soap (the soap below is for a pre-order for Christmas)

met up with the kids and went out for supper
&  committed to having an Open House in November for my soap business.

Whew! Life is never boring is it! 

 

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Farm Trees

Posted on October 10, 2017 by farm2011

I had someone come over tonight to check out some trees that we want removed and to give us an estimate. And one of the first things that I asked him is if he was licensed and then I showed him the trees. 🙂 

See after the terrible storms that literally blew through this summer and took out a bunch of our trees, it’s got me a little scared that more trees will fall down. And if they fall down, guess where they’ll fall? Well they could fall right on our house if the wind is in the right.. or in the wrong direction! 

Well for now as the fall wind blows and the trees start moving, it makes me very nervous and I sure hope he can help us yet this year to take these trees down. Of course the trees that we want taken down are one of the the tallest ones on the farm. The trees are the ones behind our house. Yup, the tall ones! See why I asked if he was insured? 

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The kids in New York

Posted on October 9, 2017 by farm2011

The kids must have had a great time in New York  just looking at some of their pictures that they took. And I’m so glad that the weather also held out! If the weather was rainy I guess that wouldn’t be the end of the world, but it’s so much better when the weather is nice. 

And it’s funny because it’s like the next step for us as their parents. See in the past we always would take them on vacations and now they’re all grown up and are more than capable of going out on their own. It’s nice,  but I still worry about them 🙂 

What is my favorite picture that they took? Check it out – very cool!

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We’ve been upgraded!

Posted on October 8, 2017 by farm2011

Daryl has been talking about getting a different skid loader now for quite some time and he finally found one that is the right size for our farm. So guess what? We’ve been upgraded. Whooohooo!! 

Now normally I’m kinda sad when we’ve traded anything on the farm, but for this trade of the skid loader – yea, I’m not so sad. It seems like it’s time because it can give Daryl some run for his money on the cold mornings and this skid loader is bigger and has more bells and whistles on it.  So good-bye to the previous one and hello to the new one! 

He bought some attachments for it like a bale hauler and a rock bucket. Now a bale hauler I’ve seen before, but I’ve never seen the rock bucket before. I guess you use it to pick rocks by yourself in the skid loader. Yup, I knew that I would like this new purchase – but it just got kicked up a notch! 

So Daryl used it this weekend to load out a manure wagon from the cow yard. When I saw him driving out of the yard this weekend he seemed to be smiling to himself.

Life is good. 

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Heigh-Ho, Heigh-Ho, it’s off to the Vet we go

Posted on October 7, 2017 by farm2011

Even though I thought that the dogs had gotten every conceivable shot that there was this summer when they had their ‘Spa’ day, I was wrong. 

With a friendly reminder in the mail this week, Reno was due for a booster Rabies shot. Now this shot around the farm isn’t taken lightly and it’s not an option to be missed, so after making an appointment, we had plans to head to the vet’s office on Saturday morning. 

But when I looked at the dogs Friday night I couldn’t believe my eyes! They were covered from head to tail in burrs and weeds! Seriously, I think they must roll in them or something! 

So before I left on Saturday I hurried up and got the big ‘chunks’ out of Reno’s coat and then we were off. 

Now if you remember the last time the dogs went to the Vet, one of them was almost going to have to be sedated and the other one was really good. And lucky for me the really good one is Reno! So she sat beside me so good all the way to the Vet’s office, got her shot, and then waited patiently while I paid. 

I found out that she really loves riding in the truck. Well let me say that we really loves riding in the truck without Kaiser! 

 

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Noodle soup

Posted on October 6, 2017 by farm2011

I made a couple of cards for Ma lately and guess what I had in the kitchen when I got home from work tonight? 

NOODLE SOUP! Whoohoo. Now there’s one thing better than having noodle soup waiting for you when you get home and guess what that is? It’s when you are the only one in the house that likes it! 🙂

So here’s to a long weekend of eating homemade beef noodle soup. Yum! 

Some of the cards I made lately for Ma 

and one that I needed 

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Happy

Posted on October 5, 2017 by farm2011

Have you ever looked at a picture that automatically makes you happy? 

Well this one does because it’s all our kids in one spot!!

William and Jude are spending some time in New York with Kyle and Kelcie and just flew in tonight. Even though it was pretty late by the time that they got in, we quick Skyped to see how their travels went and just to check in with them. You know, it’s kind of a Mom thing right? 

I’m hoping that they have great weather and a good travels in all their adventures these next couple of days! It sounds like they’ve got a lot planned!

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Luther and a Cat

Posted on October 3, 2017 by farm2011

With Ed our bull gone, Daryl has been watching the papers to see where we could get another one.  And with the girls making the worst noise in the cow yard lately, we knew that we better do something fast! 

So Daryl was able find one close and off we went to check him out, and to see if he was going to fit in with our cows and our farm. 

First stop  was to go to our sister-in-laws to pick up the livestock trailer. We don’t own one and she’s been so nice to let us borrow hers when we need it.

Well we got the trailer all hooked up and now we were on our way. But there was a quick comment made that we never looked in the trailer before we left. Now maybe there was a gate or two or some extra stuff that was stored in it, and if we put a bull in with it -well it just might not make it back to our sister-in-laws the same as we left. But it was just too late. We were on the highway headed south and that was that. If there was something in it, maybe we could just put it in the back of our truck or something. 

Finally we got to the farmer who was selling the bull and after we said hello, we checked out the bull he was selling. First thoughts were that he was small. Now of course we will probably never have another ‘Ed’, but even Daryl was a little hesitant. But we were there, the bull will grow, and we needed a bull, so with a handshake we bought him. Do you know what I liked the most about him? I liked that you could go up to him and pet him. Yup, I think he’ll fit in just fine.

Next thing was to get him loaded into the trailer and bring him back to our farm. With the cab window open, Daryl stuck his head out and was able to get the trailer situated perfectly for the bull to just walk right into it.

BUT WAIT! I hear a cat just meowing and meowing! And she’s in the trailer! Oh no!! We brought our sister-in-laws cat all the way to this farm. OK, no time to panic. So I said to the farmer “Don’t open the door, the cat will get out!” Pretty specific right? Yea, not so much. Guess what he did? He opened the door and the cat got out.

Pure panic went through Daryl and I. Here was this cat who seemed upset and must be our sister -in-laws, now loose running around the cow yard at a different farm! 

OK, we can do this! So we tried to corner her and she took off running. Seriously wouldn’t this have been so much easier if the farmer didn’t let the cat out in the first place?

But after a bunch of running around in the cow yard, I finally nabbed her and clutched on to her for dear life!

She wasn’t happy, but we weren’t going to loose her again, so into the truck I went and my plan was to sit there until the bull was loaded.

Then guess what happened? Well the grandson of the farmer (he looked around 15 or 16) came over to the driver side of the cab of the truck and asked if that was our cat? Odd question right? Well I said no, but that it was our sister-in-laws and then went on to tell him that we use the trailer and how we didn’t look inside of it and…. 

Well he didn’t move from the window and while the cat was trying to crawl up to the top of my head and scratch just about everything in sight, he asked me how long was it missing? Hum.. now remember this cat was trying to take at least the first couple of layers of skin off me, but with a death grip on it, I politely said back with a smile that I don’t think she thought it was missing. On a farm cats are always going in and out of equipment. 

He watched me for a little bit and then said, ‘You know we have a cat that looks just like that. Yup, pretty much exactly like that!” Still fighting the cat, I smiled and said, ‘That’s nice’ 

Then he said that their cat, loving named ‘Big Grey Kitty’, came to them a couple of years ago and he was glad that they finally found the right owners. 

What? 

OMG!! Was this their cat? 

I jumped out of the cab of the truck and with the bull all loaded, Daryl and the farmer came up and stood beside me. The kid asked his Grandpa if this looked this their cat and guess what the farmer said? He said, ‘Yup, that’s Big Grey Kitty’ 

So I threw the cat down and it went over to the barn and then I looked at Daryl and said under my breath  ‘LET’S GET OUT OF HERE!’ Still trying to smile when the farmer and his Grandson was looking at me like maybe I was from Mars or something. 

Well Daryl knew what was going on and the misunderstanding that had just happened and by the time we reached the gravel road from their short driveway we burst into full belly laughs! 

Well the moral of the story is: Always look in the trailer before you leave or you might get yourself a new cat! 

Meet Luther our new bull

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Sock it to me!

Posted on October 2, 2017 by farm2011

We have too many socks in our house.

OK what I should have said is that we HAD too many socks in our house!

Have you ever gotten  to the point when you know that it’s time to make a change? Well that’s what happened with our socks. 

For a very long time after we washed & dried our socks, we would just put them in a small laundry basket and then pick out a pair from there. But the problem was that we just kept picking out the same ones over and over and never really wore most of any of them.  

So tonight all that changed! I sorted out the ones that we normally use, kept back a one f few of the better pairs, and literally burnt the rest of them! I just couldn’t stand it anymore!! 

And how do I feel now that maybe 90% of them are gone? 

I feel good 🙂 

 

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