No, you don't look fat...but could you stand on this and hold it down....

With my mom living with us now,  I am not out helping my Farmer as much as usual, so I find that I have less to blog about.  But, all it takes is just helping my Farmer for one day, and boom, I have something to blog about.  I find it pretty funny, cuz if I get my camera out or I smile at something he did, he just looks at me and says "you're gonna blog about that aren't you".   Yep!  
So here goes......If you were following me last fall, we put in a new pivot and we have a lot of stuff (like one hundred years of accumulated items that someone might have needed some day)  that needs moved in order for the pivot to make the complete circle around.  Now that the snow is gone and things are thawed out, it is time to start that process.  (And to our advantage, the price of scrap metal is up!)  So as we are loading things up onto the trailer to ship it off to the scrap yard, one item is a little heavy, making the forklift a little light on the back end so the steering wheels are not always touching the ground, which makes it a little difficult for my Farmer to maneuver where he wants to go.  So, he hollers at me to stand on the back of the forklift to hold it down.  Now my first reaction is Sure, I can do that.  But than as I start to stand on it, I think  I sure hope this doesn't work!  But it did.  And that really boosts a girls ego, let me tell ya.  You know I find it kind of funny, that when I ask my Farmer if an outfit I am wearing looks OK, he absolutely will not answer me, afraid of getting accused of calling me fat.  BUT, he doesn't even think twice about asking me to sit or stand on something to hold it down.   Now it might be just me, but that right there is saying something about my weight.  But I can live with it.  I know that I am losing weight being on the 90 day health challenge and one of these days my Farmer will need my weight and I will not weigh enough so I will have to put rocks in my pockets.  HA!  But I love helping my Farmer anyway I can (usually), and if it's being the dead weight  anchor or the steadying factor, that's what I'll do.  After all, that's Livin' the life, the Farm life that is................

Don't worry, we're here for ya.............

Cows amaze me.  They are such funny, sometimes stupid, yet fascinating creatures.  And calving season seems to bring all of these different characteristics out in them.  Yesterday, we had a heifer that we were watching, because we knew she was very close to calving.  (if you are wondering how we knew, read how to tell when a cow is ready to calve in Ready, set, calve)  We were giving her 1 hour.  If she did not have it by then, we would bring her in to the corral to help.  So we went about doing other things, like assisting another cow and calf already in the corral and feeding the yearling heifers, but still keeping an eye on the heifer.  Well, I kept my eye on the heifer.  I carry with me a small set of binoculars so I can spy on the cows from far away.  (I tend to worry a little more then my Farmer does)  So, my Farmer is doing the chores, and I am trying not to constantly watch her, when all of a sudden, there rose such a clatter, I raised up my glasses to see what was the matter.  (sorry, kind of had fun with that)  And what do I see, but all of the cows running towards the heifer.    I started freaking out, yelling, somethings wrong, she's in trouble, we need to go check!!  My Farmer is saying, it's fine, don't panic.  Well, I convinced him to go check on her.  And, of course, he was right.  Nothing was wrong.  The heifer had had her calf.  But evidently when she seen the object move that had just came out of her, she let out one heck of a beller and it alerted all of the other cows to come check things out.  And they did.  All 90 some head of them!  And I'm sure when the older cows seen what was going on, they were like, "What is your problem!"  "I've delivered ton's of times."  "It's no big deal."  But what amazes me, is that they heard the heifer beller, knew that it had a sound of urgency and went to assist.  What also amazes me is us humans.  We left the heifer and calf alone so they could bond, (she was still very unsure of the calf).  An hour later we drove by with my in-laws and stopped to see how the animals were doing.  We sat there and watched as the new little calf slowly got up on all four hooves, a little wobbly, but he was standing.  Now, we have all seen this a thousand times.  But we all got so excited and cheered when he finally stood, it was really funny.  Crazy huh?  Four adults, clapping and cheering, yelling "yea, he's up!"  But I thought to myself, it doesn't matter how often you see God's wonders at work, it's important to always be amazed. 

Guest blogging, ya right.......

The other night my Farmer and I were at a meeting, and I so wish I had had a tape recorder.  There were a couple of other ranchers there and they started sharing stories.  I tried to remember them so I could come home and blog about them, figuring I'd have fresh blogs for a while.  But when I sat down to write them, it just wasn't the same coming from my mind.  That's when I figured that I needed to have a guest blog tab.  I could have the other ranchers write their stories and then I can share it thru my blog.  Great idea huh!?  And I guess here I am assuming that they would want me to blog about them.   But I'm pretty sure they would.  Cuz, everyone wants to be famous, right??  And by me blogging their story, we would be doing just that.  Cuz, as you know, I have made my Farmer famous, right??  Ya, I know, I'm thinking a little to highly of my blog.  But if I don't talk it up, who will, right??  So, I'm going to start working on my rancher friends to give me stories.  We'll see if they get as excited about being blogged about as my Farmer does.  And if that's the case, you won't see a guest blog tab........
And just for your information, if you are wondering why I called these guys ranchers and not farmers, it's because their ropes are coiled.......(read the difference between a farmer and a rancher) 
So, if any of you neighbors out there are reading this, write down your story, submit it to me and be my first guest blog.  This could be fun!  We'll even pick out an awesome name for ya..............