Winter Time

  Wow I didn't realize it's been so long since I wrote a post, but apparently I haven't written anything since harvest.  I really thought I would get better at doing this now that things had settled down a bit, but I was wrong.  Needless to say even though it's winter and there has been lots of cold weather, and snow life here on the farm hasn't slowed down all that much.

 Winter is our slow season, but we are still busy trying to wrap up last year, and prepping for spring.  I've been spending a lot of time behind the wheel of the pickup this winter.  I decided that since I wasn't working full time this winter that I would put my truck and snow plow to work, and boy has it worked.  I think since Christmas I've spent at least 1 day every week in the truck plowing snow.  So just like everyone else I'm sick of winter, and ready for warm spring days, green grass and the smell of freshly worked dirt.

I'm really tired of this view.



It looks pretty cool all lit up and night.

 

    We've had some other interesting things going on around here since my last post as well.  We found out late this fall that we are expecting our second child this summer.  I was so excited when I got told the news.  It seems like just yesterday we were bringing Madie home from the hospital, and now we get to do it all over again.

We put this on the back of our Christmas Cards. 
It's hard to read here but it says our newest edition expected around June 5th.
The pumpkins each have the year we were born on them
it's hard to see the 11 on Madie's and the 14 on the littlest one.

  Since we found out that kid number one was a girl before she was born we opted to do the same thing for baby number 2.  We kept the secret until we got a good picture of Madie with her balloon.

Can you guess what the sex is.
 

  Since baby number 2 is due on June 5th it's going to be crazy spring around here.  I say that because there have been times when we haven't met our target of having the crops planted by June 1st, so we will see how well we can all handle the frantic pace that I'm sure will come when the weather breaks.

  Even with all the snow and other things that have been going on work for the farm is still pretty steady right now.  We are working on some projects to upgrade our planter to apply fertilizer while we plant to help get our corn off to the best start possible, and of course all the normal things like taking delivery of seed for ourselves and my seed customers.  I've found out that shed space really is at a premium around here, besides what I have stored for our farm I have a few hundred units for my customers in the barn.  I'm hoping that the weather will break soon so that I can get deliveries made, and free up some space in the shop.

  I'm hoping that I can write a few more posts before we get busy in the field.  It's farm show time again so I'll try and get some good pictures of interesting things we see at the national farm machinery show, and Sarah and I will be attending the Commodity Classic show for the first time ever at the end of the month so I'm hoping that will make for some interesting writing material. 

 I hope that everyone that reads this will continue to survive this brutal cold winter, and remember when you get snowed in your house, or can't go to work or school that the work doesn't stop for those of us on the farm.