I took a milking job this past Saturday and Sunday...........all in all, not sounding bad, right???
Ummm............they keep "unconventional" hours...........3 am and 3 pm. Staggered in the house about 6:15 this morning after the milking job. Took a shower and told the SU "wake me at 8 if I fall asleep" and then collapsed on the bed. Yes, I did fall asleep. LOL I "hired on" for Thursday thru Saturday of this week too. I hate to say no, as these are the $$ we use for campground fees when we go RVing. But, Gawdallmighty.........I HATE getting up at 2:30 in the AM, unless I'm going to catch the bus to the airport for a vacation on the beach.
She has switched things around for the milking from how she used to do it...........it's alot easier than the last time I milked there. Hours are still the same, tho.
A few guys have chopped corn silage (and you cannot begin to imagine how glad I am no longer in that group............). I hated chopping corn with a passion; to the point I made myself ill the last couple of years it was SO noxious. We had a 3 row corn head for the old Field Queen.........it was for "wide" rows (40 inch). We had 36 inch rows, and a 4 row planter. So, we only took 2. We had contour strips..........and if you weren't "right on" the row, you'd knock it down. That necessitated getting the corn knife, getting out, and cutting it off and putting it in the chopper. It was HIDEOUS............and the SU would admit, if you pushed him to the wall on it, that "conditions are less than ideal"............his words, not mine. So, you ask, why did I not "let" him have the honor of chopping??? That would have ME do the job of pulling up to the bagger and filling the bag..............ummmmm..................THAT'S not gonna happen, Bunky. Thank heaven that is in my past and will stay there. I have said that there is not enough money or booze to get me to chop corn again as long as I live. HOWEVER.........if someone came to me with one of those massive Klaas choppers, I might do a load.
I've always wondered what it would feel like to be at the wheel of one of those Klaas Jaguars and a Kemper head that just sucks those cornstalks in the guts of that machine.
We need some rain............I haven't mowed yard for a week and a half, and it's not growing much. Enough to look a bit "ratty", but not really enough to justify mowing. I could do it if I have a fit of boredom, tho.
Weather looks to be lovely for the week; I hope so as the SU has a couple of corn silage bags to make for neighbors, and then I assume the guy that rents our land will want him to come and run a bagger when he makes high moisture corn. He doesn't use ours because it's not big enough diameter-wise and capacity-wise. He rents one, and has the SU run it.
Equity this afternoon; there have been quite a few calves the last couple of weeks. I suppose it was time to "clean house" in the calf barn, between haymaking and corn chopping. I don't expect a lot today, but then, you never know. Mondays are usually the heavier days due to the weekend, and the sales just on Monday and Wednesdays.
That's all I know..............
