Why, Hello March!

I can't believe that it is already March 1!  The weather certainly hasn't felt like typical end of February/beginning of March weather recently.  I can't believe that yesterday we had thunderstorms and tornado warnings!  Knowing the weather, in two weeks it will be snowing again!

Things are starting to pick up again on the farm.  Dad is starting to get everything planned and ordered for everything he wants to plant this year.  The wheat and barley that he planted last September/October is really starting to jump out of the ground, and that happened just with this last spurt of warm weather!  The cows have been eating less hay- the grass is starting to grow some, and the fields are starting to have a little tinge of green to them.  It certainly makes me much happier to see that than all the brown that we have in the winter! 

This morning, I made some phone calls for Papa Weaver's Pork to get everything situated with Quail Cove Farms for their order this week, and then went down to the breeding barn, farrowing room, and nurseries to get everything fed.  It was too muddy to get the feed truck down this morning to put more feed in the tank, so dad had to bring the tractor down that had the feed on it.  

After we finished feeding, Dad and I worked on putting up a new electric fence for the cows around the corn field.  The cornfield behind our house still has some corn cobs and corn stalks in the field, and the cows love to get in and eat them.  We had to put an electric fence up on one side where there is no fence so that they won't roam everywhere- which they would if we let them, including in the road, and then down the road to our nearest neighbor's yards and gardens.  They really love flowers and other people's gardens, which can make for a big inconvenience.  

Dad and I are getting ready to head back out for the afternoon, to work on some more jobs.  Dad is going to head to Harrisonburg in a couple of hours to pick up meat so that he can go to DC and Northern Virginia to make deliveries this morning, and I have some jobs in the barns that need to get done.