What does a weekend look like living on a farm? Well, it doesn’t look like what a lot of you probably experience 😉 I decided to do a little weekend recap so you can get a glimpse of life on the farm!
I started off my Saturday with a short, easy run to test out my newly adjusted knee. I started having problems with it after a 3 mile run on Wednesday, so this run was a slow (12min/mile) 1.5 mile run to make sure all was well. It was super humid at 7 am, which is extra hard on my asthmatic lungs, but I was happy with my knee when it was all said and done 🙂 During that run, I passed my father-in-law in the tractor on his way to get hay and saw my husband leave on his way to go feed our Charolais herd.
After breakfast, the girls headed out to feed cows with Grandpa (they’ve been doing that every Saturday since they were babies) and I headed outside to take care of chickens! That consisted of feeding and watering broilers (we’re butchering them tomorrow- yay!) and opening up and watering the layers. I also watched the lagoon goats for awhile to make sure the fence would hold. I spent a large portion of Friday fixing fence because they decided butting and busting through the fence was an appropriate activity…sigh….
I talked to my sister on the phone for awhile….
And then it was time to make dinner! I decided hamburgers was an easy meal, so that’s what we had! Elisa (my oldest daughter) had been out mowing cotton stalks, but a 45 minute rain shower chased her in from the field. Jeff also came in because of the rain, so we actually all ate together. That doesn’t always happen during the busy seasons 🙂
It continued to rain on and off the rest of the afternoon, so I replaced a zipper on Lindy’s jacket (my first time for that!) and baked for our church potluck.
Also during the day, the girls fed our 4 orphan kittens. We’ve had them in the house for the last 3 weeks and I am ready for them to be outside! The girls worked on converting an old chicken pen to a kitten pen, but with the intermittent rain showers, they weren’t able to get it done.
OnSaturday evening, the kids ate leftovers and went to bed early and Jeff and I had our weekly date night! We’re very exciting people…. we do the same thing every Saturday night and have for the last 10 years, but we like it 😉 We order breadsticks from Casey’s and watch a Netflix show. We love all the superhero shows and right now we’re working on the current season of Arrow.
On Sunday morning we did chores before church (the girls have to take care of their horses and Lindy has 3 4H goats and Elisa has a show heifer and I obviously did the chickens again). Jeff decided to wait until after church to feed the Charolais because of intermittent rain.
We had a potluck and business meeting so we didn’t get home until 1:30. I went with Jeff to feed the Charolais. He made me feed the pellets while he filled the water tank because I was smart and wore my mud boots 😉
We barely beat the rain home! Jeff went outside to his shop to work, Lindy went muddin’ with her cousin on their 4 wheelers and Reece, Elisa and I went over to my mother-in-law’s to visit. My in-laws live just down the driveway from us and we visit with my mother-in-law most Sunday afternoons. On nice days we like to sit on the front porch, but she was in the middle of a cleaning project, so we just stayed inside.
In the evening, we all went to our last self-defense class at our church. Our pastor is a former martial arts instructor so he and his wife taught us! It was fun, informative and enlightening! They even had a kid’s class. My girls said they learned a lot 🙂
When we got home from that, we all got ready for bed and hit the hay, lol! And here we are… Monday morning.
So, that was our oh-so exciting weekend! It was pretty typical for us. We never do anything exciting and Saturday and Sundays are just more work days for us! The animals always need taken care of and during planting and harvesting times, you’ll find us out in the field. We don’t *do* things the way other people do. No trips to the pool or the zoo or the lake. We just stay home and work, but, crazy enough, we love it 🙂
What does a typical weekend look like for you? Do you like going, going, going or do you prefer to stay home?
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