| Ok - one of my favorite things to smell is the lilacs on the breeze. Just walk along in our driveway right now and all of a sudden youТll smell themЕ. truly spring is in the air. Better than that, Joe and I were potting up his plants to take to the market starting the 5th. Yes, his plants. I canТt take any credit for them at all - he does a great job with them and it just amazes me. So IТve been sticking my nose in the tomato plants and the basil. He just shook his head at me because he knows there is no cure at all for me :) Now, quickly onto the marlboro man. Joe Е always has so we wonТt go there. However, the man put up a fence last week - amazingly almost all by himself (a friend came over 1 1/2 days to help) so IТll allow him some liberties and not complain. But I rode out to see how he was doing and sure enough he looked like a marlboro man. Boots on, jeans, t-shirt, sweat, a cigaretteЕ.. whew itТs enough to make me stop before he notices me and just smile. Yeah - I like embarrassing him a little bit. ItТs just sometimes IТve gotta brag because my husband can pretty much do anything I askЕ.. havenТt found a project that heТs really backed away from as long as he gets the right tools. Not all wives can claim they have that type of husbandЕ.not all wives WANT that type of husband - but I will tell you on this farm, itТs the best thing we can have. To give you an idea. Quoted about $5000 for someone else to come out and do the fencingЕ. our cost would be about $2500 for the materials and then he would need to do the labor himself. Now, first time out, he needed to get the right stuff to do it (post hole digger for the tractor, some sort of wire fencer holder for the tractor etc) but it can be reused. Now, the fence is up (not painted yet and no wire on it to finish it yet - but usable)Е. and we can look at other fencing projects that need to be done around the place and get ready and save up for those. See how the cost could add up to a lot more if we had to keep paying people to do this work? No one should EVER assume farming is a Уcheap businessФ! The labor cost would be astronomical if we paid people to do thisЕ. for now I just need to keep a lot of beer on hand and hamburger & hot dog buns for when friends come over to help out. Other stuff going onЕ. yesterday (Friday) I spent all day baking bread - 6 loaves and 6 trays of 6 cinnamon buns plus 1 tray of 5 - to sell at the market today. How exciting that I sold out!! That made my day to tell you the truth. I was nervous about it, but it went over really well. Jacob helped me move the lambs this afternoon after we got home. 2 are still out in the field with their mom, but IТll try and get them tomorrow. Poor kid got hit hard by one of the ewes (mom)Е getting knocked down by 200lbs is not fun, but give him some credit he did come back out to the barn to help finish up! Hopefully this will give the ewes a break before we out the rams out with them in about 3-4 weeks. Tomorrow a kid from 4-H is coming over to look and possibly purchase 1 or 2. Jacob gets to pick his out tomorrow morning also and weТll seperate those out later this week. We start planting this week - itТs a big week for us with this. Joe even planned his vacation to do this! You know you live on a farm when you need to take vacation days to plant seeds. Not as exciting as going on cruises and honestly some days I would take the cruise over this - but then sit out back at night and look up and listen to the quietЕЕЕ nah wouldnТt trade this for anythingЕ.. |