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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Oct 30 2005 : 6:30:17 PM
tell us a story about 'your farm day' |
| 11 L A T E S T R E P L I E S (Newest First) |
| Eileen |
Posted - Nov 18 2005 : 12:53:04 PM
My day starts at 5:30 every morning whether I am getting hubby off to work or not. Today was get hubby off to work with a nice hot breakfast and a full lunch pail so he could last the 10 to 12 hours he would be out delivering propane. Got the bread started and went out to feed and water the chickens. Gathered eggs and went in to warp my loom. Punch down the bread and make the loaves. Pushed the vaccuum around, swept the steps and went out to work on a fence I am putting up around my chicken yard. Spent last weekend finding and clearing a property line for a cattle fence we are putting in next week. So with it cleared I decided to extend the chicken yard to the edge giving them more room to run free when they are still fenced in. Baked the bread, had lunch while I waited for that to bake and began to read a new library book, "The Man Who Walked Alone" about the famous pulp author Robert Howard. Then went out and began to move my strawberry patch to a new location that my chickens have prepared for them. The botton fell out of my old raised strawberry bed ( litterally a king sized rope bed we built for our yurt, it didn't work right as a bed but made a really nice strawberry bed for 10 years.) Got about half of them moved and needed a break so HERE I AM talking to all of you. I will go out at 4:30 and make sure the chickens have found their way to the chicken tractor bedrooms shut them in lock the pop doors and go in to get dinner started. Eat at 5:30 and feed hubby when he arrives home. Clean up kitchen and work on weaving project tonight until bed time.My typical day ends at 9:30 pm when my husband and I retire to the bedroom to read out loud to each other for about an hour.
It has been sunny and unusually warm here today for this time of year so have enjoyed the outdoor time today.
Eileen
Songbird; singing joy to the earth |
| westfork woman |
Posted - Nov 18 2005 : 11:56:54 AM
The beef cattle auction has been changed from Monday to Tuesday. It was reported in our local paper that an auction of confiscated horses would be at the saleyard of Tuesday. So, Monday I called the saleyard office to see if there would be a beef sale as well as the horse sale. The gal in the office told me that they had lots of calves coming and as far as she knew, they would stop the sale at 1:00 and sell the horses, then go back to calves. I told her we would come with our calves and some old cows.
Monday night just before dark I got home, and could see cows scattered out all over the hill, quite aways away from the house. I caught the horses and put them in a small pen. I started yelling "Come boss....", (think almost a yodel). I went to the barn and started breaking hay into the feedbunk. Before I had gotten the 8 bales broken almost all the cows had come running to the barn. It took maybe 20 minues for the calves to come straggling in. I kept the gate shut, so the cows couldn't get to the hay and they kept bawling, and the calves all came to the sound. When the calves had finally gotten up to the barn, I quietly walked around the barn and opened the gate. I went back the other way and got behind the cows and calves and worked them all into the corral and shut the gate. I got the 4-wheeler and rode the ridge top to make sure I had them all. Sure enough. Tuesday morning, DH and I with grandaughter's boyfriend sorted the calves and old cows off, picked out heifers, and loaded up and went to the sale. There were so many calves coming, the horses were auctioned at the fairgrounds instead of the saleyard. A friend said they sold very well, most were ponies, and they sold for way more than the average cost of a pony here. We just dropped our 2 trailer loads of critters, and went to a nearby town for a part of DH's pickup. On the way back we looked at cars for our youngest, her's is about done for. We got back to the saleyard, just after our last old cow sold, but had to wait awhile for the check. So we watched the sale and visited with friends. When we got the check, our first stop was the bank, of course, then we picked up more parts. I came home, just before dark, took the 4-wheeler and checked on the cow that had prolapsed, she is still alive and moving, and fed the heifers and the horses. I packed in some more wood, and built a big fire and got warm.
Greetings from the morning side of the hill. |
| westfork woman |
Posted - Nov 07 2005 : 4:28:29 PM
KJD, we have been dry here the last few years and so happy for snow. Our springs are way down, and the irrigators all over southern Idaho have been short. My stepson just got back from hunting, they came home early because the snow was 3 feet deep. Just hope it keeps snowing in the mountains. I'd even take some down here.
Greetings from the morning side of the hill. |
| KJD |
Posted - Nov 05 2005 : 4:14:39 PM
Sounds like a lovely day!
Can't believe you have snow!! Please send it South! |
| westfork woman |
Posted - Nov 05 2005 : 3:20:06 PM
Does anyone on a farm or ranch have typical days? This is what happened today. We awoke today to snow. It has yet to frost, but this morning we had snow. My annuals are still blooming, looking better than they have all summer, mostly because the grasshoppers have all died. Yesterday afternoon, while riding, DH found a prolapsed cow, but it was late so he didn't push her to the house. This morning the cows had all come near to the barn, so we put some hay in the feedbunk, and opened the gate, they came in, but the prolapsed cow wasn't with them. We took the fourwheeler and the dog and went down thru the field, and in a hollow we found the cow and her calf. We walked her to the corral, and got her into the round pen. We then called our friend, the vet. He was on another call. While we were waiting for the vet, we drained the water out of the cat for the winter, pulled the irrigation pump, packed some wood,and put some of the lawn furniture away. I got tired of messing around outside, so came in to set a batch of bread, and make brownies. The vet came, I took him some hot water in my milk bucket. The vet, DH, and our friend put the cow back together and came in and had brownies and coffee. The vet had also brought our new horse, a bay gelding, we turned him out with our sorrel gelding. They are getting along just fine, eating from the same feedbunk. DH, the vet, and our friend went hunting. I took the bread from the oven, and am on my way to see my mother and sister this evening. Just another day.
Greetings from the morning side of the hill. |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Nov 02 2005 : 06:41:46 AM
alicia .. thanks for the reminder that even farmgirls sometimes have to work outside the home . now 'there' are really busy farmgirls! when first moving to kentucky, i would wander the backroads stopping at all the little 'general stores' .. and always .. breakfast or lunch ... or is lunch 'supper' here in kentucky??? well, anyhooooo .. there was sometimes a woman or two but many more older men sitting around .. and i'd just get me a cuppa' coffee, plop down beside them and start .. yep! you got it ... asking "questions"!!!!!!!!! i've learned so much about this country life and farm life and the 'olde timey ways from the gentlefarmers who have tilled the earth all their lives .. they would tell me tales of going 'off' somewheres .. but always coming back home to family and the farm again. i remember asking why there were so many 'men' at breakfast .. where were the 'womenfolk' and was told that most of the wives on the tobacco farms today had to go get outside jobs .. and there was no one home to fix them big hot, hearty breakfasts as before .. so, this was their 'club' .. their 'family' ..
i have so enjoyed these people and have learned of a totally different lifestyle .. but at the same time .. found that both country folk and city dwellers have much in common when it comes to love of family .. dreams .. and life's lessons.
xo, frannie |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Oct 31 2005 : 6:10:50 PM
[I think Frannie means everyone on the forum
yaz'um .. that's right .. it's 'us' farm chickens!
well, you keep that farm in your heart and it will come! it took me a career in washington, d.c. and retirement to finally bring me to 'my farm'. only 'critters' we have are two huge olde english sheepdogs .. so .. i don't have to milk cows or goats .. or gather up the eggs .. but we start our 'farm day' off with a big cup of coffee on the back porch while watching the sun rise .. then tend to any gardening ... had our first frost last night .. so .. today, i picked the last of the cherry tomatoes and hot peppers .. tomorrow .. i'll probably pull up the bushes and put them in the 'compost' pile. o.k. .. that's a lie .. i don't have a REAL compost pile .. but i'll toss them at the edge of the woods to turn into mulch. took a long walk in the woods together and took photos of all the glorious colors of autumn leaves. we're having GLORIOUS weather in Kentucky! |
| LadyCrystal |
Posted - Oct 31 2005 : 5:00:00 PM
I would like to hear about everyone elses typical day.
My day starts a 5:30 a.m.I wake up shower and get dressed for work.I am lucky because hubby feeds the cows in the morning.Either he or I feed our parrots in the morning before we leave for work.We both leave the house at 6:30.I work from 7:00a.m. to 4:00p.m.I am home from work at 4:30p.m. Once I am home I change my clothes and off to the coops.Hubby and I feed and water the chickens and feed the cows.In the summer we would tend to the gardens before and after cooking dinner.In the summer we are done for the day about 9:00p.m. but in the winter we are done at dark,usually before dinner.In the summer we work on the farm quite a bit.We don't get time off on the weekends.Two weekends ago we processed 100 broilers and this past weekend we put all the gardens to bed for the winter.There is always something to do.In the winter is when we get a little break.Some day I dream I won't have to work fulltime.I could get so much more done.Soon we are going to put in a barn.So guess what I will be doing in all my spare time lol.Hey atleast I am never bored.
Alicia
http://fromcitytocountrygirl.blogspot.com/
follow your dreams |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Oct 31 2005 : 3:05:57 PM
Who's "us"?
US ..is 'us' farmgirls that read these postings. sooo .. let's 'us' hear all about your 'farm day'. ] |
| Debs |
Posted - Oct 31 2005 : 12:45:59 PM
I think Frannie means everyone on the forum Meadowlark... 
I don't have a farm (yet!) but I would really like to hear an amusing or heartwarming story from someone's farm or even if you don't have a farm. Today I read "Country Smallholding" on my commute home from work today, and it just took me away from all the stress of the office!
Debs |
| MeadowLark |
Posted - Oct 30 2005 : 6:31:44 PM
Who's "us"?
If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come. |
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