Yesterday was a beautiful, sunny day to see how the snow piled up. The cows are getting very close to calving so we wanted to get them in and sorted. First, we had to clean out the pens that were full of snow and dig out the gates to make them usable. That took a couple of hours. We had the cows locked in the yard during the storm so it wasn't much trouble to push them into the corral and start sorting. We had to sort out some open cows that we need to sell, the pregnant heifers, and the early calvers from the late ones. That took awhile, but we got it done without too much trouble. Then we had to get everything fed which meant plowing to get bales out and plowing through the calving pasture to find a good place to feed. It was a long, exhausting day, and we were both tired and footsore by the end. I kept thinking about how when I go to my actual job I don't start until 9:00 and I get a lunch break instead of starting at 7:30 and getting no breaks.
Today was not as nice a day. The temperature may have been warmer, but we had clouds, fog and wind so it felt colder. M continued to work on cleaning snow out of the pens. He wanted me to bring the pickup with the mineral tubs into the calving pasture while he was chopping hay. I thought the snow looked a little deep even though he had plowed a path, but I dived in......and got stuck.....in 4-wheel drive. So, back to get a chain so he could pull me out with the tractor.
Then he had to bring the tractor to our house to plow out our yard so I could get a vehicle out to go to town. He was almost out of milk, and I had a nail appointment! While I was in town he continued to plow. He thinks it will take weeks to get things plowed out. He may exaggerate a little bit, but he does need to go plow at the neighbor's so we can move our heifer calves over there to make more room at home during calving. He's always wanting more cows, and I keep telling him we are not set up to have more cows. I wonder if he's hearing me yet?!?!
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