Lenora Jenkins Designs

With nerves and excitement

At around lunch time today, my babies are being sold.

Well, they are not babies anymore, they are now 18mths old. But they are ready to move on to greener pastures, a beef farm not a dairy farm, where they will be mated and have their own babies.

I do enjoy selling our cattle at auctions. I have a mixture of excitement and nerves. I wait with bated breathe for our pen to be sold. I will the crowd to bid up. I try to keep track of the numbers but they change so quickly. Sometimes the numbers are great and sometimes they are far from what I expected. In less than two minutes my nerves change to either sheer delight having made a fortune, or full disappointment, cursing the time and energy we have wasted. But today their is no we/ours, they are totally mine to sell!

So think of me at lunch time; I am already jittery with the prospect.

Lenora X.

Diary of a farmers wife.

Entry 1.

I’ve had a promotion this year, from lunch lady to raker….(Funny, I still had to make lunch though!)

 

So I get to drive this,

 

with this on the back.

 

 

It was quite a good day today, even though my legs feel like jelly from all the clutching and braking while I drove through wheel ruts left by super spreaders in winter.

I wonder if it will still be fun after another 200 acres? Hard to believe it is harvest time again.

Lenora X.

10.51pm update: So much for the good day. Jenks is still in the paddock with the repair men. The baler is jammed, there is grass still left to bale, and rain is forecast for tomorrow. On top of that most of my fingernails are broken from trying to free jammed grass. Oh dear....Welcome to harvest Lenora.

When one does have anything good to say

...one stays quiet! 

The paddocks are all wet

and the cows are grumpy.

The calves have been difficult to rear.

Caterpillars are feasting on my trees

and the ground is so saturated my toilet is gurgling.

(Will not post photo)

 

Luckily the Quilt and Craft fair is on next week in Melbourne, it is all that is getting me through.

Lenora X.

PS. Well, maybe not all that is getting me through. Notice our last mob of calves. They are mostly beef, not dairy. If it is a good year I get to sell/barter those calves. If I am really clever I barter them to DH, then sell them later on. He says I am the only person who can sell cattle twice!