Time to clean up!

So last night I managed to fall asleep on the couch with a phone in my hand...and when I woke up I couldn't get the internet to work and was in no state to try to fix it- so I'll type tonight.

Wednesday:

We started off teh day with chores which went pretty normally but then things picked up. Originally, we were going to go try and find our red heifers that we missed the other day, but on second thought, Merle decided to send Ross farming and Dean and I down to Dick's to pick up the yard after all the winter feeding. Him and Adrienne were gone to Rapid for a baby apt for the day, so it was up to us to hold down the fort.

Ross took off and headed to his farming tractor out at Bravehawks and Dean and I gathered the chains and extra tools that we needed, let the horses back out after eating their oats, and headed down to Dicks. I had spent an afternoon down their last week, but there was plenty left to be done. We decided to start by moving feed bunks. After flipping them over and stacking them I noted that quite a few of them were bent up pretty bad from this past winter- making them harder than heck to stack- but we fianlly got it. Then, on to moving pallots and stacking them, picking up posts that held plastic down, cleaning up an old corn cob pile, cleaning sheds, finding battery chargers, loading up salt blocks, moving harrows, hooking up to the haybuster...and the list goes on!

None of it was super difficult or made you think much, but it was slow and tedious. In fact, I don't know that i can think anymore after hitting my head in virtually the same spot two day sin a row. I was carrying a 50lb salt block and went through a short doorway and hit my head so hard I knocked myslef down again! I give up- I might need to get a special helmet for work!We finally got everything pretty well done and cleaned up by 2:00 and headed home. Dean had to pull the haybuster home so while he was doing that I unloaded much of my load of things that were to be brought back home and then went in for a quick lunch.

After lunch, I started in on cleaning the haybuster that we brought home and Dean put fuel tank straps on the tractor that were long past overdue. After using the hot iron to cut off net wrap for quite some time, I was able to move everything to a side hill and pressue washed the haybuster with the fire truck. That worked out pretty well and I was able to get most of the hay and crap off of the machine. I also had a chance to give the tractor a bath as well, but it all ended abruptly as it started actually raining outside so I quick rolled up the hose and got the truck inside before all the tools on the truck got wet and rusty. By this time, chores were past due so we went down to the corral to get them done. During that time Merle and Adrienne showed up back home- no baby yet...we're just waiting in suspense!

While doing chores we had to go on a hunt for a missing bag of milk replacer but we managed to find the dumb thing right there in the milkhouse in front of everything. After chores I went back upt the shed to help Merle get some mud out of his pickup tires and then clean out the pickup a little. They had decided that it was a little dirty to bring a baby home in- haha, I say let the kid get broke into the pickup early! But, we cleaned it out with the air hose pretty good:) I mentioned that this is probably the only time that pickup will every be intentionally cleaned that well!

For the last few nights Ross and i have somehow managed to head home at the same time and just not cross each others' paths. Like last night, Ross radioed Merle asking where I was and if I was ok because my pickup wasn't at the house. Merle told him I was fine and just working late. Then, shortly after I radio Merle and ask him if he ever saw Ross come home...he tells me yes, I was doing chores and just missed him- and not to worry because he checks on him each day he is here. Maybe we should pay Merle to be our persoanal communication unit!

And one more random funny story: So the other day when Merle and I brought Ross to his disk we stopped to shoot prarie dogs on the way home and realized that we only had the 5 or so shells that were already loaded. We used those up and then scrounged around the pikcup and were able to find 5 or 6 more and kill just as many prarie dogs! Haha, I thought that was kinda entertaining.

Finally, by last night I was shot. I came home and was sitting on the couch talking on the phone and after I hung up I never got up- just fell asleep there. When I woke up an hour or so later I realized I needed to get up and go to bed- so I did. O, but the best part...I couldn't find my cellphone anywhere and finaly had to go to bed. This morning I flipped the couch over and couldn't find it there or anwhere else. I finally found the dumb thing between the couch and the back fabric on it. At lest I found it- I couldn't see how I could loose my cell phone within ten minutes in the house- but somehow I temporarily did!

"Cowboys never lie, they just improve the truth!"