My Martin Social Outing

Alright...this is gunna be short and sweet- it's 1:00am and I need to go to bed! haha

So, today was one of those slow start mornings for Sara again. I woke up right at 6:25 and didn't get outside 'till 6:40, which is later than normal, but I still get it all done in time usually. I got everybody fed but had a little trouble rounding up the bottle calves. They were hiding from me in their pasture- but ten or fifteen minutes later I found the little squirts! Then, I headed up to the shed where it looked like the meeting of the morning minds was being held. Jeff and Ross went on their way with the hydro-swing and the windrower and Tina took the hydrobed pickup to get my fenders fixed...and pick up some other stuff in Phillip. Merle and I loaded up all the filters and oil we needed to service my farming tractor and headed out to it- and yes, I found the field just fine this time! We repalced the cab filter, the oil filter, air filters, and added hy tran fluid. The rest was just greasing and general servicing. Once we got all that done (which is harder to do in the field than you think- but it's like ten miles home)- Merle headed out to put some cattle in that we saw out on the way to the field and i started farming. I disked all morning and afternoon until about 4:15 when I had to head in for chores. In between times I switched fields and had Ross come over from his hay field and help me get the pickup and tractor over there. It's nice because both of these fields are on hilltops so I have radio and cell phone reception:) Although, my tractor doesn't have a CB yet, which is sad, I'm missing out on lots of interesting stuff I bet! lol I will get one in their soon by the sounds of it. So I disked all I could and didn't find too many treasures. The only breakdown I had was a broken key pin which I was able to replace from the toolbox.

Merle is convinced that I will go back to wanting to be a cowgirl after a few days of farming, but I say otherwise- playing in the dirt runs in the blood! O, Delbert and Merle are also trying to come up with an Indian name for me after I told them my friends were calling me all sorts of funny stuff...I'm a little scared to see what these two come up with!

I came back, did chores a little late, watered the plants (including the unplanted ones on my kitchen table...), and showered real fast and headed into town with Merle and Tina. We dropped her off at her car and then went to the fire hall for our last evening class. It was all about the actual fire suppression- pretty interesting, although I still had trouble staying awake! Afterward we drove over to the legion hall where Merle's daughter Andrea is having her college graduation party. It was pretty quiet when we got there, but it picked up as it got later and turned out to be a pretty good time. I got to dance a little (which I like to do) and met some more people. We stayed there 'till 11:30 or so and then came back home. And we all know you can't come home from something as exciting as that and not play a hand of cards...so we did...and I won! That's right- document this day in history! haha

But now I need to go to bed, we have our final fire classes tomorrow starting at 8:00am. It will all be hands on so we'll see how I do playing with fire;)

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