Cell phones are a marvelous thing. When you aren't desperately trying to get ahold of someone planting corn in a no cab tractor, or someone who is cutting hay where there is very little to no cell phone service. Came over to Harrisonburg today to pick up meat, and happened to find a hole in the radiator. I was frantically trying to call everyone I could think of, but knew that Dad was planting corn, and very unlikely to hear his phone in his pocket (or possibly in the truck) and knew that Matt was out cutting hay on another farm that has very horrible cell phone reception. Luckily, Mom answered the phone, went and got Dad, and they are currently on their way here. That's why I decided it was a fantastic time for a blog update!
Life is still busy on the farm- the way it will be until November. Dad is busy planting corn, and replanting a field that did not come up, or a plant came up here and there, and no one has any idea really why. Matt has started hay season. He's the one that stays super busy in the hay field from first thing in the morning until close to dark. He normally cuts the hay, and then bales it. Either Dad or I end up raking it into windrows so that the baler can then pick it up.
I have four sows having babies this week- three are supposed to have babies tomorrow, and then one Friday. Sows have an average of an 114 day gestation period- how long they are pregnant- but ours have been going a little longer, normally around 117 days. We still want to move them over with plenty of time so that they are all in the farrowing room, and can have heat lamps put out to keep the babies warm!
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