tight schedule

A busy day waited for us today, Monday. We left the house at 8 am to pick up railroad ties near Stoney Plain. It took us around 2 hours to load all the pieces on the truck. There were around 200 ties and some were pretty heavy. I had to be careful not to wreck my wrist even more... good thing we didn't have to lift the up on the trailer, a guy was there with a bobcat. After loading ties, bring them home, unhook the trailer and hook up the cattle trailer, head over to help move heifers we had to pick up 2 loads of cow-calf-pairs. One went to a pasture and the other once to the auction. A little later tonight we have to pick up one more load of heifers and bring them to the auction too. And after this run it's my turn to head back to the barn where my work days start tomorrow again....

porcupine quills

Sunday and nice weather. 10.15 or so we headed down to the church for the service. I really enjoyed to have off on a Sunday again which means relax, visit and just do some light work... Unfortunately, two of the young horses had porcupine quills in their noses. Poor little guys. So after church we had to pull them out. Decker wasn't so happy about the pain in his nose when we pulled the quills out. Soon, he didn't wanted to be around us anymore. We had to move him and his friends down to the shoot and pull the quills out. Poor guy had around 9 quills in his nose ! It was pretty warm outside and you got sweaty when you only did light work. I don't like that. We had a nice visit with a friend of us and ate hot dogs in the evening. The day just flew by like crazy and soon bed time was it again...

finally, part of the weekend off

Saturday evening I was off again. I really needed it, my muscles are tense and my tendons ache again. I needed some time off ! After picking up a generator and supper (popcorn shrimp and french fries- yummy !) we arrived at the farm. The days are already shorter and it's dark around 9.30 pm :( Summer is almost done ! Some trees already have yellow leaves...

swim in the pond

I am off now for Monday and Tuesday, thank god ! I really need it. My evening off started with a swim in the pond. It was nice so just hang in the tube and relax. I didn't like the weeds at all. It was almost everywhere... There are two ponds, a small and a big one. The big one has one fish in it. After our little workout and another shower we had supper and ice cream for dessert. The next workout was coming, this time a volley ball game. It was almost dark but still we had a lot of fun playing. Tired from all the workouts we sat in front of the tv and watched a movie till it was bedtime.

hot days, summer is here

My days at work were long and sometimes it looked like we can work and work but the work is not getting less... I don't like days like that, the only thing you get accomplished is getting more and more frustrated. Yesterday and today was nice hot weather. No cloud in sight this morning when I walked over to the barn for breakfast. It promised to get a hot day ! It was 29 degrees outside and inside the barn 25 degrees. Way too warm for me !! I was glad when I was done and could have a nice shower to cool myself down.

raking or not ?!

The day started with nice weather at around 7 am, unfortunately clouds moved in again. :( And they stayed... So, no raking for me :( the hay wasn't dry enough. Instead of raking or baling we brought salt to the cows, fixed a gate which two fighting bulls took out, chased a few cows and calves out of a hay field, fixed more fence and picked up a tractor in the one hay field which had a transmission problem. We were pretty busy...

sunny day and moonshine walk

A nice sunrise this morning. Then some clouds came in again but got blown away soon. Sunshine and windy... a nice summer day - haying day. After checking the next hay field on the list I started raking a few rows in one field on the other side of the highway. I didn't think raking could be so much fun :) I even drove in the second gear ! Before, I only was brave enough for the first gear ;D When I was done raking all the rows we switched over to another field which was ready to get raked too. I enjoy to sit on the tractor and drive rounds after rounds and make nice big piles of hay. It looks so nice. I hope the weather stays nice during the night and so I will do some more raking tomorrow. Our next project was fixing the tractor with the cutter. It had water in the fuel tank. It was already 7 pm. One of our friends came over to have a look at a tractor which is for sale at the one neighbour's place. We met him on the road and went home to have a visit and a cup of coffee. It was still a nice evening and so we decided to eat our supper outside. Everybody moved down to the camp kitchen. The moon was really nice and bright. A few clouds around... I got the idea to go for a moonshine walk down to the saw mill. My friend joined me. I really enjoyed the quiet and all the sounds from the night. Horses, cows, wind, crickets, just awesome ! I really will miss that when I have to go back home !!