Decided to stop...

I decided to stop this weblog! I can't really find the time anymore to work on it and I still have my personal blog. We will post things on our personal blogs when things happen. You can find the link to our personal blogs on the right side of this blog.

More activity

Emptying the manure pit...

Seeding grass

Gerben and Theo have been busy preparing the remaining ground around our house to seed grass. They seeded today and the next thing will be fencing around it. This way we can rotate the dry cows better in the summer and that one piece that is already fenced of, won't turn into a mud hole again.
The tractor in the last picture isn't ours...the custom worker is here again to empty out the manure pit.

more pics

Chopping

More chopping

It rained on the night from Tuesday to Wednesday so yesterday it was to wet to chop corn. Last night at 9pm they started again and filled up the smaller bunker. Because they were expecting rain early in the morning the guys went out around midnight to close the bunker so no rain would come in. It didn't rain so they started chopping again this morning and if the weather cooperates they could be done today with the bigger bunker. Then they still need to close it today because they are expecting a windy day tomorrow.

they started...

It's corn silage time

Today the custom worker arrived to chop our corn. I will post more pictures when they start chopping.

Repair, shed and posts

Last month the brakes from our telehandler failed completely. We just had a major repair on it and this would be another big one. We really were not waiting for this. The guys figured out what was wrong and to save money we bought a huge handbook on the Internet and that allowed Theo to fix it again! We were allowed to work in the neigbhor's shop( thanks John) so we only had the costs for the parts.

Today something else is being finished: the little shed for the manure scraper is being finished. This is the shed Danielle's dad build when he was here!

This month the railroad ties where straightened out. Now it looks a lot better and we hope that there will be no more trucks and cars in our lawn.

Oldtimer group

The museum in Shell Rock organizes a tractor tour every year and this year they decided to stop on our dairy.

Mower

We had so much weeds around the farm and they were growing so tall that we decided to buy a mower. It is just a simple one but it works miracles... It looks a lot better around the farm!

Posts around the yard

Our yard with new posts(railroad ties). We were tired of everybody driving through our lawns and through the mud, leaving their tracks behind so Gerben and Theo put posts all around our lawns. With the rain they couldn't finish it yet but once it is dry again they will straighten them and fill up the holes.

Wind gusts

This morning we had really strong wind gusts...so strong that our commodity storage is destroyed. The roof just lifted up. Then the wind settled down and the roof fell in place again. here a few pictures.