Northern Farmer

Drying up pretty fast around these parts! Even the cow barn lot has only a small wet spot left, this was a really good dry down year even though we’ve had plenty of moister! Oh Lord, getting things ready for the field, don’t know when I’ll start, maybe tomorrow, maybe Saturday. Cleaned oats for seed yesterday and the day before that got about every piece of equipment for the small grains planting ready. Everything is greases up and ready to go. Just got to turn the key in the tractor and away we go! The plan that I had since last fall is working great, the plan of putting the cow herd out on the neighbor’s corn stubble as the pastures start greening up. The cows look very content and happy out there. Even when I feed them their little bit of silage and hay they ain’t all that hungry and that’s a welcome sight!

Got a million things to do around here, both on the farm and with church. In other words I gotta figure out something to keep me busy talking behind the pulpit for an hour or so, quick! I learned from past mistakes what not to do so that’s a plus! Oh well, as long as they remember to put a water glass or two up there!

I’ll make this post short and sweet, tis the season you know! But seventy degree temperatures have a way of agreeing with me. I praise the Lord that we survived the long miserable winter! Everyone a feller talks to pretty much feels the same way around these parts. Put on a new straw western hat today and that’s always the mark of the new season. By the end of the season it’ll be pretty rough looking from being sat on in the pickup or things thrown on top of it, funny how that always goes.

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