Sunday's Words

Sunday's Words

4.09"

Luke had fire training again last night.

Anthony was running around taking pictures of everyone.

 Only three more months until graduation.

We got 4.09" out of the last system 

that started during the early hours of Wednesday 

and ended Thursday night.

It should prove interesting to feed them silage this morning!

Fear not!

They will be moved to drier ground this morning!

Sunday's Words

Moving On To The Next Step

Wednesday morning came 

and it was time to do clean up work.

Silas was checking out the 7400 

while the manure spreader was getting filled.

It was time to get the plowing underway.

Paul got a quick lesson and then did some plowing.

Ben, Hannah, and Molly went to work on the shed.

The floor got raked out and watered down.

Equipment was cleaned up and parked inside.

They didn't finish.

There were plow issues instead.

But they got about half done.

But look what was discovered during chicken chores!

There were 5 new baby chicks.

I know you can only see 4!  

The fifth was walking under the feeder!

Finishing the Silage

While Ben was silaging Monday night,

Paul and Jack loaded bales from Hillary's.

The JD 3020 died in the middle of emptying a wagon.

The Massey was put into service.  

But it wasn't hefty enough to start the pull.

So Hannah got in the skid steer 

and pulled the Massey 

until it could go on it's own.

 Tuesday morning brought the end of silaging.

 Luke was at work,

Elsie was at school,

and Jack was golfing.

That left Paul, Ben, Hannah, Molly, and me to do the ugly work.

Thankfully, the wind was not horrible 

while we were covering the pile.

You can see the dust blowing down at the end of the pile.

It was sure nice to get that job done!

Sunday's Chopping

Jack likes playing with close-up photography.

Bright and early Sunday morning we were back in the field.

Big time farmers with hundreds or thousands of acres 

would laugh at us and how long it takes!

But us little guys work our tails off 

with old equipment 

and do the best we can.

One of the boxes broke a chain and was out of commission.

Paul pulled it over to the shop with the WD 

and then Jack got a quick lesson in driving it 

before taking it back to the shed.

Paul was handning me tools after we got done cleaning the wagon out.

I couldn't resist the picture!

 We took a break from 5:00-7:30 to go to church.

And then came back home to go at it again.

In at 10:30 again.

Thankfully, it was potluck at church

 so we had already eaten and could just shower and crash!

Starting Chopping

It's time!

 Saturday, after Luke got home from fire training,

and Ben got home from Larry's,

and Paul got up from a nap after working all night,

it was time to start chopping corn.

It's such a good feeling to be bring in a supply of winter feed.

And the colors!

How can you see colors like this 

and not KNOW there is a God?

These two!

Hannah took Ben and Jack to Larry's 

to bring the big guns home for packing.

The girls, Paul, and I 

picked up lots of dropped cobs 

and knocked down stalks.

Yes, we are the only people in the state that do that!

But why waste good feed!

And the cows and calves were very grateful!

The pile was starting to grow.

We finally called it quits 

and went in for supper at 10:30.

Sunday's Words

Alfalfa

Ben started the final cutting of alfalfa yesterday.

Jack went out to get pictures.

Paul finished the field when he got home from work.

I think this field gets plowed up after this baling is done.

Breakfast

Klink and Schultz enjoyed some fine dining for breakfast...

fresh cut alfalfa, corn, and windfall apples!

Yum!

Memorial Day to Labor Day

 This weekend we worked our tails off.

Sparks were flying everywhere.

There was a ton of measuring and figuring.

Ben with the saw, Luke with the welder, and Paul with the grinder....

it was noisy out there.

 Sunday morning, Paul, Ben and I 

were out there nice and too early again.

The wood posts were so much easier to work with!

Molly and Jack gave the waterer the final scrub down.

 Ben scraped the burrs off the new concrete 

while Paul finished the final wiring.

Then it was time to open the gates 

and let the cattle out on the new concrete!

We started Memorial Day weekend.

After so many weather set backs and other commitments

we FINALLY finished the project Labor Day weekend!