Busy Farm Days

Life is never dull here - there is always something to do. Today Ken was working in Salt Lake, so I had the day to work on things around here. I have been watching our neighbor's horses and watering their garden, so I've been back and forth counting noses and changing water. I weeded, tried to decide where to put the new pussy willow bush, dashed inside when it was too hot to work outside anymore, washed the garage out, did inside jobs, watered and fertilized all the trees, fed and watered the horses.

Drew came over to help me get the hay out of the field. Thank goodness! I usually don't have any problem hauling hay, but these bales must have weighed as much as me. Even Drew was struggling with them. We tried to move one that had gotten wet last week and was still wet - holy smokes! No moving that bale, even with two of us. We split it up, threw it in the 4 wheeler trailer and got ready for water. We are trading water turns with our neighbor since it's going to take a bit longer to get the field all watered and his pasture got soaked pretty good last week.

Ken was able to get the weeds in the front pasture sprayed this week and the ones in the back done last week. It seems like an never-ending project, but it does get a bit better each year as we get our list of projects done each year.

Time to spray the field again, the grass hay that is with the alfalfa is really nasty - I'll be surprised if the horses have anything to do with it. Hope it doesn't rain before I get it all moved into the barn and stacked.

Ken, Drew, Brynn and Adam are all going down to Jordan Commons to work tonight. Ken has had this side job for the last 5 or 6 years, it gives the kids a chance to earn some pretty good money, and it helps to pay for some project we have going during the year.

Drew and Ken have a little project they have been working on - and it looks like it might take off here pretty quickly. We bought 2 Polaris Rangers, one had a bad engine, one had a bad transmission. They are combining the good parts and selling the chasis of the bad one to help offset the bills. We are now ready to pull the empty chasis out of the garage, put the good one back in and put everything back together again. I can't wait to take it for a turn around the town - put a car seat in and maybe Amber and I can go see the sights. (it has seat belts!)