Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Lucky girl
Every night when I shut off Cowgirl KJ's light, sneak one more peak at My beautiful Baby Cowgirl CE and tiptoe though our messy house I wonder how we got to be so blessed. I am so thankful for my beautiful family. That's all good night world and thanks for this amazing life.
Monday, June 25, 2012
Show Girls
Cowgirl KJ had her first horse show this weekend. It was lead line. Oh for those who don't know lead line is where someone leads you around on a horse in the show arena. Cowboy Z Aunt J was the leader. Sonny Ray was the horse. Cowgirl KJ was the rider.
She did great. She was amazing. She looked so natural. Her head may have seemed like a bit of a bobble head, but she is 3, and her horse is 16 1/2 hands tall. I am so proud of her. Everyone won and got blue ribbons and a gift bag from the judge.
She had fun and asked before they gave out prizes when she got to do it again. I was not sure I wanted her to show. Now I can't wait till the next show. She did awesome, and I am a proud Mama. Did I mention she was amazing.
I can see why soccer moms get so competitive, the feeling you get seeing your baby do so well is a huge rush. I never thought I would be a show mom... but now I think I might have gotten the bug... YIKES
Did I mention she was amazing, and beautiful, and so natural?
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| Look at my blue Ribbon!!! |
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| Mommy Helping Cowgirl KJ get her helmet on |
Oh I did... Sorry, not really I would say it a million more times, She was AMAZING!
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Harvest
What kind of farmer's wife would I be with out writing a little blog about harvest. Wheat harvest that is. If you are not from the area you may not know this but wheat harvest was pretty early this year. There where a lot of farmers who could start cutting the end of May. This is virtually unheard of in our area. We usually are closer to mid to late June, even as late as July 4. So the end of May is pretty crazy.
We (meaning Cowboy Z and his Uncle... I really have almost nothing to do with it beside cook some food and say things like "look at them cut, Cowgirl KJ see that wheat they are going to put in the grain cart.") have everything custom cut. Meaning we hire someone else to harvest our crops. Combines are very expensive, like $400,000.00 expensive, and we flood irrigate corn. Now this may not seem like good reasons to you but when you figure the wheat needs to be cut the same time the corn needs furrowed and watered (both pretty labor intensive jobs) you start to see why we hire a custom cut crew to cut it for around $30,000 this harvest. So while our guys where trying to furrow corn (make trenches in between each row of corn for the water to run though) we had a crew with 3 combines, 1 grain cart, 2 semi grain-trucks, 4 South Dakotan s, 3 South Africans, 3 semi-trucks(to haul the combines), and two 2012 Dodge ram pickups to get around town in, harvesting the wheat. Dont get me wrong the guys watched them cut and helped get trucks and crew from here to there, for the most part we let them get the job done.
Unfortauatle I did not take any pictures of the crew cutting except this one of them packing up to leave. Cowgirl KJ loved seeing the semi-trucks parked out her bedroom window. She told me last night she missed them parked out there... oh well another harvest in the books.
Oh and if you are wondering we harvested about 50-60 bushels and acre 50 is average on a good year in this part of Kansas. So we cant complain about how it went.
I know I did not do a good job at explaining what all goes on during harvest, so if you have any questions feel free to leave a comment and I will try to explain it better.
Thanks
TFDW
We (meaning Cowboy Z and his Uncle... I really have almost nothing to do with it beside cook some food and say things like "look at them cut, Cowgirl KJ see that wheat they are going to put in the grain cart.") have everything custom cut. Meaning we hire someone else to harvest our crops. Combines are very expensive, like $400,000.00 expensive, and we flood irrigate corn. Now this may not seem like good reasons to you but when you figure the wheat needs to be cut the same time the corn needs furrowed and watered (both pretty labor intensive jobs) you start to see why we hire a custom cut crew to cut it for around $30,000 this harvest. So while our guys where trying to furrow corn (make trenches in between each row of corn for the water to run though) we had a crew with 3 combines, 1 grain cart, 2 semi grain-trucks, 4 South Dakotan s, 3 South Africans, 3 semi-trucks(to haul the combines), and two 2012 Dodge ram pickups to get around town in, harvesting the wheat. Dont get me wrong the guys watched them cut and helped get trucks and crew from here to there, for the most part we let them get the job done.
Unfortauatle I did not take any pictures of the crew cutting except this one of them packing up to leave. Cowgirl KJ loved seeing the semi-trucks parked out her bedroom window. She told me last night she missed them parked out there... oh well another harvest in the books.
Oh and if you are wondering we harvested about 50-60 bushels and acre 50 is average on a good year in this part of Kansas. So we cant complain about how it went.
I know I did not do a good job at explaining what all goes on during harvest, so if you have any questions feel free to leave a comment and I will try to explain it better.
Thanks
TFDW
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