Manure

Saturday on the Farm

Posted on by Melissa

Today turned out to be one of those days that livestock farmers hope to get in January. A day to haul manure!

It’s been warming up this past week and today it made up into the 40’s. That means that the housework waits and we spend the day in the skid loader and tractor, cleaning out our lots.

This morning after chores we worked at home and got the Monster pile in the cow yard hauled out. I loaded with the skid loader and Dan spread it in one of our nearby fields.

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Dan’s sister, Teresa, stopped in around lunch time so we got to take a nice break. We haven’t seen her for almost a month so it was good catching up with her, and hearing how her Christmas and New Year’s went.

While we were in the house I made some goodies for the Community Awards Banquet tonight. I made a cheese tray, a beef stick tray, and a batch of snowballs. They will be served during the Hor d’oeuves portion of the evening.

Last year I worked at the Chamber and helped put on this great event. Community members nominate volunteers in 5 categories to be honored at this Banquet. It’s a great honor for the volunteers and also a fun social night out.

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Dan and I at the Awards Banquet

We were also happy to see a good family friend of ours be honored, Lester. He is a very giving person and does a lot for the community.

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Lester was so happy and humbled to be honored

Hats off to you Lester! And to all of the others who were honored tonight!

A good day, all in all.

Dan’s New Toy

Posted on by Melissa

One sunny day last summer, my husband was on a mission. He had had enough during the past long, hard, snowy winter and raised his bidding number over and over and OVER again until he had bought something on his bucket list.

This is my husband's idea of fun!
This is my husband’s idea of fun!

As you can see, the dogs like it too. We have 2 dogs… Cosmo and Brooklyn. Cosmo is our black lab and is close to 8 years old. Our yellow lab, Brooklyn, is his daughter and is about 3 years old.

Brooklyn especially loves to chase things that fly, like snow from a snow blower! Both dogs also enjoy tennis balls, bale spears, welding sparks and the worst of all, flying manure.

Let’s just say she stays a lot cleaner chasing flying snow. 🙂

So, if you’re in the neighborhood, you may be seeing Dan going from place to place, using his new toy! He’s good like that.