Windy, windy, windy!

As I look out the window now at 8 o'clock in the evening, this is the first time today there is little to no wind. This morning, though a reasonable temperature in the mid-fifties, felt wickedly cool due to the overcast skies and 40-45 mph winds.  It was not pleasant to load the feed wagon with chopped, dry hay or gluten, though it did give me practice parking the tractor and wagon in a more ideal location.  This morning I did get to feed the west yard (which is becoming my task daily since those bunks are great practice ones), but I also got to load the wagon with the feed for the stock cows.  As I said, it wasn't pleasant with the hay blowing into my eyes, but I have worked with the Case skidloader before and am quite comfortable with it.  It was exciting to take the next step in involvement with the feeding process.  We also replaced two broken boards on one of the bunks at the stock cow barn, so now they will have access to all of their feed rather than have most of it spill out one of their bunks.  In order to accomplish the other necessary task for the day, dad and I had to go to Farm and Fleet and purchase flags.  We picked up a few more supplies while we were there.  On our way home for dinner, we stopped to give a map and delivery instructions to the man who will haul our load of gluten from point A to point B.

After dinner, dad worked on fixing our family's lawn mower (I was absolutely useless during that entire process), and finally managed to get it working again.  From there we took the flags and marked off the dividing line between our bean ground and corn ground so the nurse truck driver (the nurse truck being the vehicle hauling huge tanks that carry our liquid fertilizer) would know where and where not to spray.  We did this both at the home place and at Bradford.  We ended the day by moving machinery from the field to the yard so that we can actually start planting within the next week or so.  I'm pretty excited about that process.  I'm not fluent on most of our machinery, though I am familiar with it, but I've never planted or harvested before.  Yet that is the big stuff!  It'll be great to learn!