For the past couple of days I have had the joy of sitting on a tractor renovating the alfalfa. I think I would feel better if My Darling Wife beat me with a stick. I don't know what it is about farming but it cripples me up ever time I have to sit on a tractor for a long time. I could barely walk last night. How farmers sit on tractors for days on end is beyond me. I still have about a half day to go to finish the job but I'm not doing it today. I think I will move some cows around instead. Anything to get away from the damn tractor.
One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff. George Eads
Thursday, April 17. 2008
Beat Up
Friday, September 14. 2007
Wheat
Saturday, May 5. 2007
Timing
Monday, April 30. 2007
Farming
Wednesday, April 25. 2007
When it Rains, It Pours
Friday, August 18. 2006
Combine
Wednesday, June 28. 2006
Another Time
Monday, June 5. 2006
New Baler
Thursday, April 27. 2006
Busy, Busy
Busy, Busy, Busy. Busy getting spring work done. It's finally getting dry enough to farm a little so I am trying to get some of that done. I might have been able to get some done earlier but everything I want to plant this year, around 200 acres, has alfalfa with it and you want to wait when planting it until the chances of frost are a little lower. Don't get me wrong, we can have frost into the first part of June but it's getting late enough now to chance it.
There are other things to do besides farming though. Tuesday we gathered up a few more pairs to take up to where the two-year olds are so we can brand "the little bunch" today.
After we were done moving the cattle I jumped in the tractor and got some farming done. Normally I would have had the hired man do this but with him leaving there is no need to spend the time teaching him how to farm only to see him leave in a few days. Easier to do it myself and get it done. I hate sitting in the tractor farming but it needs done.
Yesterday I thought I could get a big day of farming in and finish getting the fields ready to plant. No such luck. Out checking water in the morning and a bunch of the drys are out in the wrong pasture wandering around. Everything that didn't have a calf on it when I finished kicking pairs out I put in a different pasture to sell later. Since I don't preg check there are drys in there along with stuff that has lost a calf and a very few left to calve. A bunch of these were in the wrong pasture and there was no water there so a good part of my day was shot getting them back in.
I still got some farming done but not what I wanted to get done. I hate it when my plans get shot. Today is the little branding. Just a couple of neighbors to help and get some branded. No big deal. I'm more worried about getting the farming done. On to that tomorrow. I will try to get a picture or two of branding today. No promises though.
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing. Thomas A. Edison
There are other things to do besides farming though. Tuesday we gathered up a few more pairs to take up to where the two-year olds are so we can brand "the little bunch" today.
Getting a few more pairs to take up to where the Two-year olds are at so we have enough to brand there. Taken 4/25/2006.
After we were done moving the cattle I jumped in the tractor and got some farming done. Normally I would have had the hired man do this but with him leaving there is no need to spend the time teaching him how to farm only to see him leave in a few days. Easier to do it myself and get it done. I hate sitting in the tractor farming but it needs done.
Yesterday I thought I could get a big day of farming in and finish getting the fields ready to plant. No such luck. Out checking water in the morning and a bunch of the drys are out in the wrong pasture wandering around. Everything that didn't have a calf on it when I finished kicking pairs out I put in a different pasture to sell later. Since I don't preg check there are drys in there along with stuff that has lost a calf and a very few left to calve. A bunch of these were in the wrong pasture and there was no water there so a good part of my day was shot getting them back in.
Getting the drys back in from their unauthorized excursion. It always shoots my plans to hell when critters decide to go exploring and need to be gathered back up. Taken 4/26/2006.
I still got some farming done but not what I wanted to get done. I hate it when my plans get shot. Today is the little branding. Just a couple of neighbors to help and get some branded. No big deal. I'm more worried about getting the farming done. On to that tomorrow. I will try to get a picture or two of branding today. No promises though.
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing. Thomas A. Edison
Tuesday, April 11. 2006
To The Hills
It's that time of year again. Feeding is over and the cows get to go into the hills. Yesterday we took the two-year old heifers out to the hills. It was a long, tiring trek, 8 miles or so, for them. I didn't know if we were going to get them the last mile or so but we won in the long run. I have them in a little pasture we will brand them out of come the end of the month before we kick them out into their summer pasture. Today we will start mothering up and kicking the cows out. It's a little easier with them since we only have to gather some to the corner, mother them up, and kick them out the gate. They know where water is at so we don't have to take them to it or worry about them once their out. We will work at the cows a couple of days and then wait a day or two while they scatter out in the new pasture before we kick anymore out. If everything goes well we should have them all out by this time next week and off the fields. Then it's time to start farming.
Oh how I hate farming. It's one of those necessary evils though that it's time to do.
The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. Robert M. Pirsig
