Quess We are done haying about time

yesterday we got done haying the last field and it did not get rained on imagine . So normally we would head camping to late to fallish , So we set up camper for carrie behind the hedge so she can think she is campin g I slept out one nite Bruce has slept out a couple . It is not ideal but it works. Now Vicky and Carla has gone to Vancouver to spend aweek sight seeing and visiting Bruces brother Peter and his wife Mai. Now we are pulling for a little freetime here what shall we do. Had a cow calve today in the pen imagine that and she had a heifer All doing well. Our oldest turned 24 yesterday they all are growing up not our little tan Tan any more.

Saint John Idol

Our Vicky did us proud tonight, she performed in the wildcard round of Saint John Idol. She sang a song that wasnt her style but did ok. Our Vicky is more country, wait until next time saint john lol. Next up is the A&E...here are some pictures of vicky singing. Bruce started second cutt today. We had to stop doing hay for a while because we are making a mess of the feilds because they are so wet. The tractor got stuck in a field we just planted so we decided to take a breather from all of that stress..

Another slow day hopefully tomorrow we will hay. Today we had Peter the foottrimmer in and a dozen cows were done and only one real bad one. Bruce went to see his Dad who is back in the hospital maybe they will figure out whats wrong. It has been a rough summer for him getting sick every 30 days or so. Carrie came home from camp today good to have her home there was kids from vancouver and the states and you name it. Also her hamster fot sick today and passed away I wonder who felt the worst Bruce or her . Angel the hamster was to be 2 in august old for a hamster,

Here the group that did the ms bike tour donot look to bad for half way mark

well it has been 10 days since I wrote some text and yes lots has gone on. We had a heifer who calved out in the freestall and yes of course it was a heifer and we do not like them to come in contact with any manure matter, well it's face was covered with manure and the heifer is a b t h and boys she hard to get in the parlour and she won't let you put the milker on her ahh it will come.next we had a good day we got the gravel knoll done up in hay and the little swamp by the lower barn done it was not bad hay also we did the meadow up in silage it was good stuff ran into a problem when the wheel bolts came of and the wheel fell of and wagon is now full sunk into the ground and of course this leaves Bruce with a project for Friday .Well our front end loader cannot lift it so he has to get excavator down, took hub of that wagon got hub of another wagon and we are back in business and can get wagon of the field and the neighbours can relax. Next day is Bruce,Tan Tan ,jesse, and Bruces sister Shelia big ms bike tour 122 kms in 2 days. Can you imagine how soar they will be and it is amazing 134 riders all ages raising money for a cure They were fanastic and I am so proud of them Now all those riders raised 695000 dollars. Wait till next year we will be bigger and better maybe we will practice. You think. Now our grand finale was a bq at Shelias and grandma and grandpa came and so did stacy gilbert and kara . It was great Shelias and Arts boys were there to.

It is that time of year we work very hard to get haying done. Well it is a fight it is foggy and muggy and we are fighting all sorts of conditions to get any sort of haying done. Today it rained and rained hope that it would relieve the air wrong . Tan Tan and her 2 munchins came down for a visit it has been great Emma has lived in the pool and she even wear a life jacket. Bruce and tan Tan have been practicing fot there ms bike tour i am so impress at there determination I wish I had as much . Well tomorrow is a new day and it is to be 30 degrees its of to the fields and lets hope we get more done.

Awesome

What a day we had a terrific herdhealth we got 4 new heifer preg and a whole bunch more, makes up for the lousy weather. It might be xmas before we get to do haying I am not looking forward to go camping in the snow lol (we go camping right after haying) Then off to St John idol Vicky was trying out she made the first cut 133 preormed first off only 80 made that cut tonite first 20 of 80 preformed and only 3 made it and we did not make it but by golly to get up and preform in front of all St john some proud of her takes after her grandma the singer of the family . Did I tell you that Bruce Tan Tan Jesse ans Shelia are doing the MS bike tour 120 kms some proud of them . Oh yes Bruce cut a little hay today maybe a sign of gooddays ahead. You think

Happy July first we arrived back fr Halifax intending for the crew of us to go to hampton to see fireworks and low and behold a truck pulls in the yard its the farmer next to our dry cows they are all out we all headed down and 24areout considering thatsll thereis lol so we work as a team and put them in then we leave late for fireworks and quess what they arelate starting good and they were great Emma loved them. Next day is Sunday and it is raining you know we need it.lol Bruce and Tanya go do a 30 kms bike ride I stayed home and planned a meal They came back said there tired but they are fine today. We moved the cow 631 out of pen into the horse pasture and she made it and is walking great and this morning i let her go with the cows real brave of me . Today the fields were wet so we did not mow but we will tomorrow, Bruce is getting ready to hang up two shed doors that he rebuilt him and vicky got one done we will finish it tomorrow.

We did a load and a half of hay today I quess that means we started haying it looks like its going to be a hell of a crop it is about time. Weather is still iffy so not much haying mowing etc has been done yet. We have got a lot of bits and bites done. Like we fenced out front of the house so you can seat on the deck and watch your cows neat.Vicky has had a friend down fr Quebec for the last 2 weeks it has been fun for them both. It has been so muggy here it is gross.We are taking the weekend and heading to Halifax hope to see some friends and have some fun plan to head home for Sat. to go to fireworks all our grandkids will be here.

It has been a h ll of a week.Vicky was in the miss of graduation and we did silage all done over filled the silo had to shove out a half wagon load ( bruce did) and save the unloader and let settle and then reload in to the silo next day . Next Bruce got that silo ready to feed and the we shout down the other 2, sealed and started to raised greased and all ready to go.Now we are going to start to hay we will do a little to make sure all is going to work. Did I tell you that one of reasons we are done silage is that Bruces forage harvestor broke . WE are going to Halifax for the weekend and Tanya is coming to mind the fort cannot wait.

oh boys it has been a while and man we have been busy. We have had lots of grad stuff going on like grad banquet and grad church service and grad barbeque yes we are all grad out lucky for us it has been raining so this does not cut into our work just kidding it has been a blast and lets us join forces with all the parents. Well its been raining raining and more raining so Bruce went to visit Jesse on his farm and did some farm visits they visited Bruces old boss when he was Jesses age. When he was gone a pipe broke in the lower barn oh there was water every where cleaned it up took us girls awhile then compacitors on the silo conveyor went called Bruce on his cell and asked what do we do well he said take motor in and get them to fix and they did only a hr and I was feeding siage ,so then the foot trimmer arrived we trimmed 15 head then we took a break for supper and Bruce arrived home . Did the evening chores and I go to put a cow (631) in maternity pen due to calve in the next day or two and she is down with milk fever grr Bruce gives her a bottle in the vein (calcium) and the witch still would not move never got up till around 2 today still not terrific but she is up. Bruce fenced all day him and sam they enlarged the dry cows pasture and we got 8 beefers ready and loaded and him and the girls delivered them.Tonite we got the corn planter ready for storage till next year, Now we will have all our equipment ready for cropping and it will rain till Thanksgiving.

Gosh it is along time since I wrote a newsreport. We are getting a pile of rain here and cold well makes you wonder where did that nice weather go.Wednesday we had the dinner for grads and there parents thats us and oh ya our vicster. nice time and we got to see them get emotional of growing ang leaving there buds.Thursaday was the day we sold a beef cut and wrapped to a 3 people it looked relly good I love beef. Calves are doing reall good and cows are milking awesome. bruce has building a deck it is looking great it adds on to the back deck that is there. Tan Tan is coming for the weekend she has a friend who needs her

It has been a few days since I have posted much has gone on. We got silo 2 ready for silage we greased oiled it raised it you know stuff we are usually doing day we are going to put in silage, to be a head of the game awesome. we also got 3 drycows and 4 heifers down to the drycow pasture a major accomplishment a day when Bruce was to take Peter to the airport and I going over to watch the girls finally game of rugby,which they won 24 to 0 a game I hate , Carrie went to her middle school social and in all this after doing evening chores we went out and picked rocks of the long piece and then arrived home to get to bed and find a dead cow grr no reason not sick or anything who can explain it. Then to bed we all go and Carrie comes in and says some one downstairs of we go and Jesse and Amanda came home for a visit what a nice surprise. Now we are starting to get a little rain like buckets and buckets there will be no field work for a few days . Oh yes Jesse brought home a birthday gift for his dad a goat ,Billy is his name and he is a great addition to our animal kingdom at rothiemay. Well Stacy and Kara are still in hospital but keep your fingers crossed could be going home tomorrow if all goes aok. Well Carrie is of to camp for 3 days and Bruce has to drive there luggage imagine they will have fun for 3 days and NO ENGLISH ALLOWED those kids will be tired because having to think before they speak well talk again.

Well it has been a week of different stuff. We planted our triple stuff ( peas barley and timoity ) WE planted 40 acres of corn for Sharps and we had a pretty good herd health. There was a cow that been fresh a very long time and shes in calf . Our little jersey calf is so tiny and is doing awesome. Ran in to some problems with Stacy's baby it keeps quitting breathing so doing some tests and going fr there. Still rocks to pick grr,

Hello all quess what Stacy and Gilbert had a baby girl yesterday it was 6 lbs 1 and a quarter ozs it is to be called kara bliss very cute looks like stacy lets pray for red hair. No new baby calves but abby had 5 puppies oh boys and it is a constant can we keep one ya right. Grandpa is in the hospital and quess what he is on the same floor as Stacy pretty neat . Bruce planted Mac Donalds corn today only Sharpws corn left 80 acres. he is right now harrowing a field he wants to plant tomorrrow , he is goimg to plant peas timoity and barley this makes a terrific feed you cut it in the milk stage around 45 days the cows milk awesome on it Well gotta go have a good one .

It seems I owe some one an apology for saying I was going to be a nannie well WRONG I am a nannie very much so right Emma Well today we had a very different day we did adlic ( sampling of milk for smc ) Also we had a beef animal that was cut and wrapped and solded to all the way to St Stephen alot of meat The kids picked rocks carrie went to the play,Bruce harrowed and Meliza and I did the barn chores. Tan Tan and crew are coming for the weekend so will have all here Sat, nite. Tomorrow will try and get the field finished . Go girls Hey Sam girls rule

Hello it has been a lonfg 2 days we have accomplished some small stuff. First of we got the guys out to the knoll pasture that took us the afternoon to fence no flies awesome was not to hot another bonus. Then we moved a little guy out of my calf barn down to Bruces barn. Then Sam had to clean up that pen to move up our overstock thats in the horse pens just1 ,3 to go. Then today we moved 6 out of Bruces lower barn to out back beef barn. Trying to make our barn chores alittle easier. Then today we tried to pack corn and it was to wet so of to another project more fencing going to move beefer farther away from the barn. Then tonite of we go to Carries play of the little mermaid not bad Kids worked real hard and it showed it was terrific. Oh yeah NEWSFLASH I am going to be a nannie any day if she does not go in the week they are going to make it happen poor Stace all this waiting . Tan Tan and the kids are coming to visit this weekend to see Peter awesome. Better go to bed got to do adlic in the morning explain it all tomorrow nite.

Hi everyone I am a idiot I just wrote a whole blog and deleted it. grr Well here I go again Today was a slow day rain does that to you. We had a painter here for the day painted the rec room and the kitchen. looks great. Bruce picked up his brother at the airport who is home for a visit from vancouver. The kids had a slack day tired went to triple bill at the drivein they rolled in about 4. Tired puppies.The cows are still milking up a storm Calves are looking a bit better. hate this weather makes us and the animals in a bad mood.

Another day fixed water tub out back again it should be ok now . gosh those beefers can reck stuff. We are amazed at how things are moving along. The cows are awesome
they have really pulled there weight this year milking like crazy never letting us down. The foot trimmer was in on Wednesday did 25 cows put wraps on 6or so not bad it is amazing how one minute they are limping so bad and Peter trims them up and in a day or two they walk like a trooper. Got a new bull I think he is Limo he seems to be some quiet. 2 calves were under the weather today but they are feeling better already. With a 11 calves to feed how can you expect 1 or 2 get sick. Stacy stilll is waiting to have baby every time she calls I say is it now. Gotta Go see ya

Getting spring field work done, today we worked on the lawn tractor an gator getting them all up to date. Yesterday dad harrowed an seeded some. The cows are out an loving the fields. Vicky has been mowing the lawn. Cant do to much today because everything is so wet from the rain.We needed the rain but its still dry.Stacy still hasnt had the baby. Things are hectic around here.. Until next time.. Oh an by the way Tanyas pregrant with Triplets TJ.. Just kidding. Dad is working very hard this time of season is very stressful.Cant wait for it to be over. haha... Anyways good bye till anothe beautiful day.