April 28, 2011

• Lovely spring afternoon

  Rain has been the order of the day for several weeks now in this part of the country.  I haven't put the guage out yet but I am willing to bet the rent that we have gotten upward of 5 inches in the past three weeks.  That much rain has made getting on the fields to plow and disc next to impossible unless you are a big farm with those knuckle bender tractors that have duels in the front and back and four-wheel drive.  We are not such a farm.

  

  Nevertheless there is always plenty to do and the weather is not going to stop my men from getting the work done.  Yesterday was too wet for Doug's boss to get on the fields so he sent Doug home early from work.  In our book home early doesn't translate into play time.  Ian and Doug took advantage of having two strong backs at home at the same time and decided to load up and spread a couple of loads of manure from the back of the pig barn.  It was a bit dicey getting the tractor and spreader in there because of the wet but they figured that if they got stuck there was always another tractor in the barn to pull them out.

   

  Melissa, Layn and I stood on the hill above them and chatted while they forked the manure into the spreader.  Hard work you may be thinking but those two managed to talk as fast as they were forking so it can't be too hard. (I can say that since I have been on the working end of a dung fork myself plenty of times.)

  

  Slow going and plenty of ruts later off Ian went to spread that lot on last year's corn ground. 

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