Wednesday, June 8, 2016

View From My Green Tractor

Here on the Farm I do other things besides quilting. This is a real working dairy farm and even though I am retired, I still get to drive tractors once in a while. I was tedding hay last week and as I was driving round in circles and back and forth, I was flooded with memories and mentally wrote a couple of books as I reflected on my 45 years living and working on this farm. Now I was born and raised on a dairy farm and married a dairy farmer and officially milked cows full time for 18 years, but I had to retire from doing all that because of osteoarthritis and lower back issues. Driving tractor is something that I can still do.


View from my Green Tractor

 My Sweet Husband cutting hay with the other Green Tractor


The Other Green Tractor

 The darker green is the fresh cut hay. 
The lighter green is the hay cut the day before that I was tedding. 
What is tedding? Basically turning over and fluffing up the hay so it will dry faster.


One of the Hay Fields

 Getting instructions about speed and technique before I start.


My Sweetie

 He called the local John Deere dealership and told them 
that his wife broke 2 teeth.


Our Mechanics

 I got to quilt the rest of the day.


Our 1840's Farm House

Blessings,
Chris

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13 comments:

  1. WendyJune 8, 2016 at 8:22 PM

    Chris your home is beautiful!
    and that Hay looks decidedly like 'the weeds' we are slashing down at DD's place (It was a dairy farm before being sold for housing) it comes up beautiful and lush and then dries like straw once cut.
    Cheers Wendy.

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    1. Chris June 9, 2016 at 12:07 AM

      Thanks Wendy. The key to cutting that grass is to do it once or twice a week. He plants this amazing alfalfa blend that is a bumper crop this year.

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  2. GlendaJune 8, 2016 at 11:15 PM

    Chris what a delightful blog so lovely to visit your place I even had a coffee while looking LOL such a lovely lovely old farm home it does not look that old though. Hugs glenda

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    1. Chris June 9, 2016 at 12:05 AM

      Thanks Glenda. I love posting the age of the house. It even has a dirt basement. You don't have basements in Australia do you? Because it gets so cold here in winter, we needed them to store food in the winter.

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  3. Chookyblue......June 9, 2016 at 4:11 AM

    oh your house is beautiful.......glad you can still do something on the farm.........it's nice to get some work done.........

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  4. AnonymousJune 9, 2016 at 11:59 AM

    The first picture makes me smile. I drive around in circles, usually in a green tractor, with a harvester and a dump wagon on the west coast. My step-son mows, grandson rakes and husband drives the silage truck. You might know them. My husband, his dad and his son have all been President of the Canadian Geurnsey Breeders. I think my husband stayed at your house once.

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    1. Chris June 9, 2016 at 12:26 PM

      My husband is the current president and I forgot to print off his agenda and meeting notes for the business conference call yesterday before I went off to babysit. Oops. And the mouse was dead so he could not access them on line when he got a call reminding him he was chairing the meeting.

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  5. MonicaJune 12, 2016 at 9:21 AM

    LOL, what a great story, Chris! Aren't we having gorgeous weather? And that is such an idyllic photo of your farmhouse at the end. Happy quilting!

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  6. Deb @ Frugal Little BungalowJune 13, 2016 at 7:12 AM

    You have a lovely farm there and I had a good chuckle at the end of your story :)

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  7. Deb @ Frugal Little BungalowJune 13, 2016 at 7:12 AM

    You have a lovely farm there and I had a good chuckle at the end of your story :)

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  8. Laurel's StitchesJune 13, 2016 at 11:15 AM

    Cute story, great house! I love your veranda. I have always wanted one.

    I love that you describe cutting hay; I think that the knowledge of routine farm activities is something being lost by most people. Thank you for documenting it in a creative way.

    Thank you too, for posting to TN&TN's WIP Wednesday!

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  9. Val's Quilting StudioMarch 24, 2017 at 7:15 PM

    LOVE YOUR GREEN THIS WEEK!!! Oh and your house is soooo charming. We live in a 1950's colonial...so love the charm of old houses.

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  10. RhondaMarch 26, 2017 at 12:42 AM

    I, too, love driving the tractor. Hay baling season will get started in my neck of the woods soon with all the rain we're getting, everything is greening up quickly!!!

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