Nancy and Karl sold a couple cows so they left yesterday to deliver them. They left us in charge of running the farm for the last couple days. We got the animals fed and today we did some more work on the chicken coop we’re building. The Falsters returned today. It’s sure good to have them back and in charge! Continue reading
Last night before Mark and I went to bed we noticed that our electricity wasn’t working. This morning Mark fired up the generator. He tried checking our fuse box and everything, but couldn’t find what the problem was. I went out to feed the pigs and saw Karl already in the barn. When he found out we didn’t have electricity he went to look at our situation with Mark and discovered that the problem was in the electricity coming from the cabin where we’re hooked up. Continue reading
On our last day of work, as we were driving away, Mark and I had an impulse to stop at the beet pile where we almost got smished by the boom and toss our helmets as high as we could. It was like tossing your graduation cap after spending several years of hard study. It was like saying, “We were here!” Continue reading
My friend Cindy sent the pictures from our last day. I thought I’d juxtapose a couple first day pictures with a couple last day pictures: Continue reading
Today was our last day of work!!! So few farms were bringing beets in that Todd asked if there were any volunteers who would like to be done today. Mark and I were the first to respond. We volunteered yesterday, so today we were counting the hours. We don’t have to set the alarm for 5:00 tomorrow. Yay! Continue reading
This morning when we arrived at work at 6:30, we learned that our piler was down. There is something called a Lovejoy on it which sounds like it should be a wonderful thing, but that’s what was broken. While the mechanic worked on it we cleaned the piler and greased it until there wasn’t really anything more we could find to do on it, so we went to our cars and waited…and waited…and waited. Continue reading
This is a question for my female readers: Do you ever feel like when you tell a man you’re concerned about something, he pats your head and says, “There, there! Nothing to worry your pretty little head about?” Continue reading
In spite of the warmth and the cloudless skies of yesterday, when Mark and I went to bed last night we heard rain on our roof. It rained off and on all night. Mark didn’t sleep well last night so he can testify to that. Continue reading
Today the ladies saved the day! Continue reading
I took our camera to work today and got pictures of the boom that fell yesterday. Before I show them, I want to say that I’m enjoying working with the other Cindy, who will now become just plain Cindy since my friend Cindy works the night shift. Day shift Cindy loves to laugh and joke. It makes the day so very pleasant! Continue reading