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The rest of our week-end in pictures, Feb 16-17, 2008

It seems like more often it is 10 degrees with a 20 mph wind :( We have had over 30 inches of snow in the last two weeks (nearly 60 inches this winter)....so conditions are pretty critical here.....no where to put the snow, mobility is a challenge for man and beast, and the calves are making their appearance. I could only wish for sand when this all melts.....but we will have a serious mud problem :cry: Wishing you all the best in this "baby season". :D
 
Congratulate the kids for me as well soapweed. They make a lovely couple. I guess if I had to get married all over again I would marry sooner. I was 20 and my wife was 18. It's a shame we wasted all those years from 16 on up. :wink: This is Arkansas you know.
 
2009 :shock: Man that is a long way off! Jan & I met in June, were engaged in July, Married in August (of the same year). If I had it to do over again, I wouldn't have drug my feet. And, no we did not have to get married! Of coarse, I do not advocate that for my children :-) But when ya know its right, why wait :? ?
 
Soapweed wrote:
When Peach Blossom and I got married in 1979, we operated pretty primitively for quite a few years. The first two winters, we fed our hay with four head of draft horses and pitchforks. We started using a tractor after that, but it was an open air (no cab ) IHC 706 with a Farmhand loader. I didn't even have the good sense to get a canvas "comfort cover," so there were some cold rides while feeding hay in those days. We still used hand-held pitchforks up until 1990. At that time I acquired a diesel IHC 766 with a cab. We also got a stackmover with a hydraulic hydra-fork to pitch the hay, which was still in four-ton loose stacks in those days.

We got the nice new calving shed in the early 1990's also. Even now, we still use our old calving shed, which is 30 feet by 80 feet. There are 17 box stalls in it, and our horse barn has 14 box stalls in it if the doors ever thaw out so we can use it again. Some years we hardly use the barns, and some years we put a lot of pairs through them.

Besides running our own place, Peach Blossom and I leased my dad's ranch in 1994. We started baling our hay at that time. That is the year I got the Agco Allis 8630 FWA tractor. It worked good for both baling hay, and feeding with a six-bale hauler/processor.

We seem to acquire better equipment through the years, but are running quite a few more cattle now than then, so still have to work kind of hard. :roll:
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Thanks Soapweed. I figured that you had it much rougher than you do now. Good to see that hardwork does pay off.. 8)
 
Awww...Love is in the air...Does that mean spring is close??? I always thought the two went hand in hand...Now I agree that Soapweed is looking forward to the young couple working their tails off while he's taking pictures...oh wait....I'll bet if we ask Peach or Saddletramp..they'll say that happens NOW!..Just kidden Soapweed....lol
 

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