Learning All the Time

This truck tries to get the best of me...

Learning All the Time


So I am and will always be a farm girl in the making...

The other day while out feeding cattle, it was cold, snowing with some ice and this is how my day went...

I open the door to get out of this 1ton pickup...which I hate driving!  It's a standard stripped down farm truck.  It's not my usual pickup that I drive.  I look like a little old lady driving it and usually always kill the engine trying to change gears.  Now that you have a visual...while getting out of this pickup, that gets the best of me every time I drive it, I busted on my a$$!  Not before pulling something in my shoulder trying to keep from busting.  Snow is blowing, cattle are mooing (because they're hungry & the pickup has the food), and I begin crying.  I'm thinking what in the world am I doing! I manage to put out the bale of hay and then I turn to head back to the pickup that I despise and what welcomes me as I turn around...bulls!  They scared me and I jumped and not gonna lie, wet my pants just a little! I get myself together so I can finish feeding and stay on schedule...yes farmer's have schedules!  This girl has to be done with chores in time to pick up the boys from school.

I'm trying to put out the bale of hay with this strange pain in my shoulder, thinking man I must be getting old!  I'm finally to the last place that I put out the big round bale of hay and I've got to break the ice in the tank, so the cattle can get water.  It had been cold for a few days so there was lots of ice and it had been snowing on top of the ice.  I go to the tank and get ready to break the ice with this heavy sledge hammer...then I drop it through the snow & ice!  It falls to the bottom and all I can think about is crying some more.  The positive is that this was the last place I had to stop & break ice.

No way am I sticking my hand in this...

I sent a short version text of my day's events to my husband, and older 2 sons...thinking that they'd get a good laugh.  My husband calls and is laughing and says, "Sounds like you're having fun!"  I pick up my second son and he's laughing.  I pick up my oldest and the first thing out of his mouth is, "Did you get the sledge hammer out of the tank?"  I'm thinking oh no you didn't just ask me this!  I snapped...I know it's hard to imagine.  Ha ha!  I said, "Are you kidding me?  I wouldn't stick my hands in that nasty tank of water on a nice day and how dare you think I would.  So where do I get another one of those sledge hammer things?"  His response, "Mom, you don't just go buy another one!  We need to get it out of the tank!"  I couldn't help but smile about how he doesn't want to waste anything and the fact that he seriously thought I should've reached in that tank and got it out.

He was nice enough to get it out of the tank a few days later...boys are like that.  They always take care of things!  It's really a great thing to always have boys around.  So my life consists of boys, and lots of them, cow poop, dirty boots but most of all love.  Lots and lots of love.  Boys show love in many ways and with a house full of boys I feel so very loved!  I'm so very thankful that my parents encouraged me to make the big change and stay home with my boys and learn to help Gary on the farm.  I have so many stories about my life on the farm and I'm still learning and I hope that I'll always be learning...after all I'll always be a farm girl in the making!  So it goes that I'll KEEP ON KEEPIN' ON!

Trinity