True Farm Wife Blogpost

I know you're dying to know what I'm doing right now. Twitter, chirp, cackle. Upon awakening this morning, I happily anticipated a day of sorting and straightening up in my cluttered house. However, Husband, characteristically, had other plans for me. (I should really call him "Eeyore" here on the blog.......after Winnie-the-Pooh's perpetually down-in-the-mouth donkey friend.)

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Anyhow, first of all, I was sent to our small town to pick up 1000 lbs. of soybean meal, 1000 lbs. of barn lime, and 100 lbs. of salt. Thank goodness I have a pickup at my disposal. (As you can see in the photo, there's lots of corn left in the fields around here.) Then I hustled to the veterinarian's office to buy cow eartags and calf scour pills. Also, I had to open father-in-law's house up for the furnace guy. The igniter was broken off. I had a nice visit with the furnace guy, who was a couple years ahead of me in school, and was pretty wild back then, but he has settled down and is a good dependable heating and cooling guy now.

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The rest of today I will spend in the tractor, bringing round bales home from the field. I'm really excited......I get to use the ickiest tractor on the place, an AllisChalmers 190, with no heater. Husband, out of the goodness of his heart, did just now put the doors back on the tractor's cab. Ah, well.....when I was young, I often drove a cabless IH 560 to haul corn on cold late fall days, so today's task will be luxurious compared to that.

I get a kick out of the unintentionally lined up bales in the photo above. They don't usually end up that way in the field after being baled. And, notice the herniated bale in the mid-foreground.......the netwrap on top must have split.

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Wish me luck!! Have a great day yourself!

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