Farm Equipment

We are so blessed with 2 tractors, an excavator, a dump trailer and a skid steer that all work. Today Ruth needed to move 2 bales from Rachel's pile over to the farm onto Fedi's trailer for the trip over to the Davidovics horses. Mike fired up the old John Deere which has a bale spear on the loader and on the back, drives across the dam to Joan's picks up 2 bales, drives them back to the farm and loads them onto Fedi's trailer. The yearlings also needed a new bale which Mike put in and then one more bale in the back field for the herd. Having equipment that actually runs is such a blessing.
We had a big group on the walk this morning, perhaps we are all getting use to the cold snowy weather. Personally I'm ready for winter to be over although officially it hasn't even started yet!
Happy Birthday Ben! My third son has just reached his 27th birthday, the day he was born was so cold the car doors froze shut and Mark had to climb through the hatchback to open them to take us home from the hospital at midnight. We went in as an outpatient that evening, had him at 9:00pm and was home by midnight. We lived on the top floor of a 3 story apartment building and I still remember the climb to the top with my beautiful new son in my arms. Those were the days when car seats were not required, the hospital gave us a box with a thin mattress in to take the baby home. How things have changed.
Mark is taking the car again today, hopefully tomorrow he will have time to work on his truck. I'm running out of books to read being stuck home so many days.
Louise Roecker called that the Skyline home has not been able to wrap the Bibles. There has been flu going around. There are so many request to be filled, the young group may need to help out AGAIN!
Sarah left this morning at 4:30 for another snow boarding trip, this time with the ICC young group. She wanted a wake up call around 4:00am and Mark was good enough to do that. Actually he just happened to wake up at that time so knocked on her door. It was so nice to sleep in and sleep in we did, all the way to 6:30am. That made the morning kind of a scramble to make it to the farm in time as Mark needed to be dropped off a the shop first. The horses didn't get fed until after the walk. Every bucket needed to have the snow dumped and scrapped out.