10 Sep Sat 2011
Saturday Night Fewer, but Without the Temp.
It was not four in the morning, just 7:30am when we got up, so we kind of slept in. Breakfast for 2, no 3. Mathea woke up too. She likes to have her whole family together for the weekend meals. I still due both at home here and in Norway.
Did you know that it takes forever to due short errands in Devils Lake??? It only took us 41/2 hours to due our errands. We needed a part for the oil splitter on the JD3010, so we stopped at 2 stores, and I alone hit the two last ones. But no luck. So the guys at JD in town found some "will work solution" for us. For once it was cheap, just $75, not bad. But Brad and Bob kept the old one on, and they can make it work, but I can not. So maybe I will continue this break from baling???? Brad came out with 2 of his children tonight, and baled for 2 to 3 hours. Mathea had friends to play with, while I cleaned our Quonset. This was so nice, both for her and me.
Our Quonset is like our dumping ground, so all odds and ends, end up there. We collect used lumber and pallets from different businesses in Devils Lake. We use the crap lumber in our wood stoves, and the good stuff we save. I want to build a cord wood and straw building, by using just recycled lumber. Our neighbors do think we are a bit off plum, but we make them talk. So who do really worry about them and their farm practices???Actually we all should worry. First you spray with Round Up to kill weeds in wheat fields, they you spray Round Up to kill the wheat, so you can straight combine it. Just a lot of Rounding Up in some farmers lives. OR????????
Other than this we are just good old farmers, and we did chores, weeded, watered, baled hay, cut hay and fed hay. We kind of like to keep the circle full here, so we do it all.