Busy Week

While I was hoping for a little down time after last weekend seedling planting, I have yet to find a break in the activity. With all the shuffling of bull and calves and barns, we begged off from hauling and delivering firewood for this week. It was a good thing because the pickup has been needed for other things almost every day and being tied up with firewood bundles would have caused several snags in the processes.

Our local feed store always has a super-duper sale in February. We plan in advance for the sale to purchase the lime we use to sweeten the hay fields. PS the price has increased tremendously over the last year as with everything we purchase and even with our bulk amount and ordering to fit it into the sale schedule, it has taken a significant jump. With shortages on so many products, Mike contacted the farm store last week to assure they would have the product in by the time the sale began in February.

Not only did the store order it, but it arrived a week early for the sale and now it is clogging up their warehouse where they are trying to bring in all the big February sale items. They asked if we could get our order out of there right now to make much needed room for their biggest sale of the year, by doing so they would give us the quoted sale price early.

The loads should be three pickup trips. Getting them home is one thing, it takes three people to unload and secure the product inside the bed of the Big Red Beast. Did I mention that the old farm truck, The Big Red Beast had still been nearly full of dry firewood ready to make bundles? Last fall I had been dutifully filling the bed of the truck as the extra storage capacity for January and February bundle sales. I knew I had to have the truck unloaded for the anticipated February deliveries of lime but had to go into overdrive to get all the wood out of the truck, across the river and over to my show barn where I have the bundling/wrapping machine while saving room for the pallets of finished bundles and the pickup when we are loading. It is suffice to stay there has been a lot of frantic stacking and cramming going on with the need to have the truck empty before bringing home the first load of lime.

We are still weeks perhaps months away from actually begin the spreading process, but by gosh we will be ready when the time is right if we can get all the loads done home and placed in The Big Red Beast.