The SU got rained out today with his bagging. They made a 300 foot bag of corn silage; started about 2 yesterday afternoon, and finished it about 1 this morning. He had a short night...........he had to be down there at 7:30 this morning to put on the 2nd 300 footer for the chopping today. Well, that lasted till about 1 this afternoon..........they got rained out. I suppose they will be hard at it again tomorrow morning. Next job will be for my brother, but he can't get his custom guy till next Monday. He's also doing a 300 foot bag, but will make a 100 at his farm and the other 200 at his other farm
No milking job this weekend. I could have had a job Friday night, but I have to work the feeder cattle sale on Friday, and I know I won't be done there in time to milk. Gads, that will almost be a vacation........no milking.
I made another big panful of roasted tomato sauce yesterday. This batch made 7 cups. I also made a batch of bacon jam and some lemon curd for my sister to taste. She is visiting from France, and she said she'd really like to taste that jam. Too bad it wasn't a hit. LOLOL However, the lemon curd sure was. And I made a loaf of homemade bread this morning for them to try both the jam and curd on. The bread was also a hit, since it was still a bit warm. Who doesn't like warm homemade bread?
We need to sort some heifers out of the bunch here at home, I think there are possibly 5 that are open, from the looks of them. All the others are in various stages of starting to show; some a lot more than others. Won't be too long and we'll have to sort some for Lentz to take back to his farm.
Yesterday when the SU was feeding the silage out in the bunk here at home, as he ran the last in from the mixer, the web from the discharge went right along with the silage into the bunk. Grrrr................he said he might could fix it, but it would no doubt break again, either in the dead of winter or when we were gone and one of the kids had to feed. Soooo...........off I go over to Platteville to the dealer and get a new web. (50 miles one way.........it was actually a nice relaxing drive all by myself). I asked the guy "and I suppose you are just giving these away???" He said "well, actually not". SU about vapor-locked when I told him it was a little over $1600.00.
