Because of warmer weather in February we have been able to get some of those uncompleted last fall jobs accomplished like raising our 2-way tower.
BJ and Cassia had an antenna they wanted to move from their windmill so BJ sat in a yellow tie down strap while Kyle raised him to remove the antenna.
Kyle then swung BJ and the antenna from the windmill to their recently raised 2-way tower. Thanks Kyle for making time with your crane to come help out.
So as BJ dropped tools and nuts attaching the antenna, Cassia and Natalie would climb part of the way up the tower to help him out.
This antenna switching job ended in the ER with BJ getting stitches.
Last Sunday evening we celebrated Jan's brother Paul's birthday with his family.
We had another good week in the shop. Spring will be here before we know it.
This past week Brad mentioned we have ketchup, mustard, and pickles, when it comes to tractor colors.
The guys have been updating this planter with the latest technology including Delta Force which is individual row down pressure, E-sets where satellite determines seed population by the row, and high speed seed tubes where a seed belt brings the seed to the ground rather than it just dropping insuring perfect spacing at higher planting speeds.
Wow. This is the dirt collected from our wash room bay from all the machinery we cleaned up this past winter.
Another wow. Our Saint Bernard, Kinze, accidently locked herself in the seed side of the machine shed. She knew the way to the shop but couldn't find a path so she literally dug her way through a couple of rows of seed pallets ruining over 50 bags of smartstax seed corn. Kinze is fortunate Jan likes her around.
We picked it up and unloaded the boxes in our seed shed from our unloading dock.
Then the kids found a creative way to get it out of the boxes and into a wagon to be put on the playground some warm Saturday.
Jan had me go through some more boxes from the old house. I found a newspaper with this gal's engagement picture in it. Remember when engagement announcements only used the girl's picture? Well anyhow I'm blessed to celebrate 41 years of marriage with her in a couple of weeks.
Speaking of being married 41 years, I found another picture in that same old newspaper of a couple's wedding picture from December of 1974. :)
The frost is coming out of the ground in southern Iowa. BJ ripped some end rows early one morning on the frost.
Mike is busy pushing dirt. He finished a terrace Saturday and is moving to build and grade a large cattle building pad.
BJ has started laying tile and has plans to keep busy at it next week.
I haven't been up to speed for a couple of weeks so on the advice of some gals that love and care about me I went in and spent a day getting checked out. Kind of a preseason thing. I didn't want to go very bad. I was afraid I might fail the tests. I passed. Thank you from the bottom of my heart to those of you that encouraged me to go.
Well, this blog is a day early because Jan, myself, Karl, Kristin, and Malaki are going to take a week off, look forward to visiting some landlords, and hopefully find some warmer temps. Below Karl is showing Ryan how to chore. It doesn't matter whether it's farming, family, church, or our community, God has put some wonderful folks in my life to work with and I thank Him for that. See you next week.
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