27th Jan Fri

27th Jan Friday

Wake up: 07:15
Out of Bed: 07:40

Breakfast:
x4 Weetbix. After I'd worked till 12:00 and not had enough food or water to drink all morning, made functioning hard! Silly me and my crap preparation for the day!

Farm work:
Started: 08:40
Clearing out the tractor shed, and all it's 3 bays. As we are expecting that delivery of hay.
But today, I scraped all last seasons hay into piles for Ben, where he used the tractor and bucket to remove and dump elsewhere.
Then did the same again on the calving shed, that was a pain. As Ben and I had to work around all the calving separation structure.
Next, I shift another gate left out in the weather for the environment to ruin it!
Rusted out! Missing supports & only steel! Great to see that $ was well spent here. cough!
Same story for a old trough, which was homemade, which I don't have a problem with, but I do have a problem with the exposed welds. On galvanized steel sheet, well done! I'm sure whoever did make the trough would know something about metals and what happens if you don't prepare, treat and finish them correctly.
Come on how do they expect it to last? Didn't think busy farmers had the time to do things twice.
Had another drive with the tractor today, seriously. It makes me worried driving something worth so much. And which can damage so much in just a single moment.
Finish: 12:00

Lunch:
I had a banana and carrot. Then Ben and Robyn came home from town, with Fish n' Chips! :-)
Awesome! That kept me happy, for the rest of the afternoon. It made me feel some much better than this morning. Just with some food and water. Ha simple!

Start farm work.
Start: 13:10
Sprayed & grubbed three paddocks. Plenty of thistle to deal with. But was glad it wasn't as giant as the thistle's that were on the lease land.
Next, put 3 waratah's up along a sagging fence line, to prop the electric wire up. The cows were just walking over it. Only because of some battens holding it up :-) excellent!
Next, move herd into the "dairy'. Milked, I was alot more confident around those girls legs this afternoon today. Ha
Finish: 17:10

I felt alot better after work today, compared to yesterday and this morning. :-)

Tea:
We had a spicy and hot chicken & vege meal, on rice.

Ben and I watching 'The Last Starfighter' lol.

Just found this,
http://www.weday.com/craig_and_marc


Blog finished draft 20:31, 27/01/2012
Blog finished typed 20:54, 27/01/2012