New Adjustments

First off, I once again have to apologize to my followers for not keeping up with my postings.  Winters are suppose to be a slow time around the farm and I thought I would have time to do a lot of blogging, but of course, once again, I was wrong.  After the holidays, my mom had a bad fall and so we took the step and moved her in with us.  We made my office into a room for her and put my office in the basement.  So this last couple of weeks, I am adjusting to a new schedule.  I am spending more time in the house and less time helping my Farmer.  The up side is my house is staying cleaner (because I'm there more but mostly cuz mom tells me it needs cleaned), and I'm spending more time with her.  She is teaching me how to crochet her famous afghans that she has been making for years, which is pretty cool.  The down side is I haven't been helping my Farmer as much.  (just between you and me, this is still out to jury whether it is a down side or not) (ha).   Once mom is a little more settled in, I will start my ritual of walking over every evening again, and drive the tractor for him when he feeds the cattle.   So far the winter has been very mild, and he's been able to feed the cattle by himself.  Without much snow, he just lets the tractor go by itself thru the field.  This probably isn't the safest thing, but he gets it done.  And with the lack of snow fall, we haven't had to plow our snowplow route.  With taking care of mom and everything, it's been nice not having to plow, but I know next month when it comes to paying some bills, I will be missing that income.  Also because of the lack of snow this year, my Farmer has been getting a lot done around the place.  A normal winter, we figure that it usually takes 3 times as long to do anything, and you really don't get anything done.  But this winter, he is finding out what it's like when you don't have tons of snow to deal with and I think he's liking it.  He even did a little work on my house, which was awesome, and maybe I'll post some pictures of it some day.  But for now, I'm still adjusting and rearranging things around the house, and my Farmer is happy about all the things he's getting done around the farm.  And I think we will keep plugging along with smiles on our faces.........here on the farm.........where we're livin' life......the farm life that is.