Thursday.........DONE......

If you read the early report you know we were swetting again to get sows in but I am here to tell you we are all resting easy tonight cause the day is over and for a Thursday it turned out rather spectacular as far as we are concerned!!!!! Only a few bumps or thumps, call them what you will, in the feed mill and with some frozen bearings on a few bins, did I forget to mention it is frigid and damp to boot which makes for some stuff sticking like it ordinarally would not do so we haves to unstick them....

I did have to make room for a sow about mid morning. As I walked by I happened to notice she was staring up at me while all her neighbors were sleeping so I stopped to say "hey" and she said "oink, oink I'm dripping milk here" and I said "oh oink" and led her off to a sweet (yes, as candy)with her name on it so to speak and left her there to milk as she saw fit, and she saw fit.......

The day did turn out very well with that being the closest call as far as the sows were concerned and tonight we are all cozy and calm watching it snow and all IS well on the farm once again....:)

Early Thursday Report.....

Another early start cause, yep, girls are due and their rooms are not ready yet. Had to scope out a vehicle with the web cam around 2:30, not sure what he was doing at that time of morning, nobody is up that early. Four degrees this morning, snow yesterday more comming today, I'm cold and in need of coffee and "all is well on the farm today" remains to be seen.......TTFN.........:)

Another Thursday From HELL.....

These are Lana and Liz's babies in the nursery and as you can see they are growing like pigs on a mission, which is what a pigs mission is, if of course, a pig has a mission, which I believe every pig does, so therefore it is safe to say that they are growing and that growing is their mission or am I mission something here??? Either way, all the 4-H pigs (all 10,000 of them, sure feels like it some times) are looking fabulous and growing like pigs......on a mission....I'm done.....:)

Actually it has been more like the 2 weeks from hell and Thursday was just a compounding of all those problems. We were just starting to adjust to loosing an employee and Lori and I were swetting bullets to get sows in before they, well you know, in the gestation barn, I even started at 3:00 A.M. Thursday hoping to get ahead of the game, (it's not really a game but that is what they say and so I said it too but when you find a sow in gestation doing well, you know, it is not a game but I'll say it that way cause everybody else does but it ain't) then Steve shows up and informs us (us being Lori and me(I) that the other two valued team members were not showing up ON THURSDAY!!!! A sin in itself!!! Soooooooo, that meant us (we) three had to do chores, feed, check bins, grind feed, wean sows, heat check, catch and vaccinate 300 pigs and give them to Steve to vaccinate again and sort, fix heaters, water lines and make sure all was right in the world, help move the jewish settelers off of the North bank, finally got the color map finished for Hilary's trip back to Arkansa, wash the farrowing house and get sows in before they, well you know, all over the place, and answer the phone and other miscellaneous non important trivial stuff like breathing and eating (HUGE on Lori's list) and stopping once to go to the bath room and all this with Steve and Lori both sick just not feverish. Luckly, Dustin showed up later in the morning which helped out a whole bunch and needless to say we gotter done!!!

Well, I am working the weekend and so far I have managed NOT to tear up anything or myself. The weather has turned around a little bit and today has turned out to be a very nice day in more ways than one. I think I will retire to the couch now for some R&C (root beer and chips) as I believe everyone else has, so for now everyone is resting for the day and all is well on the farm once again..........:)