Tangle Tree Ranch

Well, we are not kidding, no not having small goat babies', but joking. It was 4am when Bob and I was done with our chasing ....%*§ cows and ponies. Actually it was 4:30am. Bob went to bed at 5am, and was out of bed again at 9am. The sheriff's dept called about our.§#%&....ponies at 9.15am. Short night!!!!!! I am not so sure that our pony stud will stay a stallion for too long. He is becoming a problem child, this is due to the mares in his group is breed, and the big once are not. They will not be breed either. Not as long as I have a say!!!

So we called it a night at 9pm. Just an ordinary day, short, nothing to it. I have had the day off, due to United Tribes Pow Wow in Bismarck. But it seems that the days off are longer that the days at work. I never understood what my Dad meant, when he said after a short weekend at home on the farm, that it was going to be nice to get back to work. But now I understand, trust me!!! That is why this year is going to be my last at Four Wings High School. I am going to quit a job I like, to do what I love. I am very fortunate to enjoy my work, but it is time that our farm get first priority.

The lack of time at home here is, why the haying has drag out so bad. But this is the last year.  Bob is reading my Norwegian Country Living, so I have to translate, my brain is "fuzzed" confused, but it is nothing that SOS by ABBA can not fix. He is looking at receipt for our CSA, good man.

Brad came to help tonight. He is my husbands best friend, they go back 40 years, so they know each other. He baled for me, so I could go and work in the garden. The baler broke down, but still, it was nice to come and help us. He works for a big farmer, but right now he has a few days off.

Our cucumbers are blooming, lots of flowers, so we will get cucumbers. The garden is doing well, but we do not need any frost, yet. The long term forecast do not show any frost danger for the next 30 days. So there is hope.

There is always hope in a hanging fish line, and farming is kind of like fishing. You cast out, or seed, hope something bites on, grows, so you can harvest, or reel in the fish. Just as long as you are prepared for the harvest.

Our land comes out of CRP in 2012, so we are planing to seed grain crop in 2013. Organic of course. So we are planing to cast out a bit troller net. You know the big fishing boat net, that catches lots of fish. But there is many days between now and March of 2013. That is when we must make our selection of seed to grow in large scale.

Tomorrow is a new day, more things can break, and I got oil under my finger nails. Try to get rid of that!!!