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Jul. 14th, 2025 01:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unicorndukeevery week I think I'm not going to work as hard because we're caught up and yet. I'm tired. one of our teenage employees that we're training up to do more complicated and involved work called out because he pulled his back (not working), no idea when he'll be working again.
and then it rained 1.6 inches in an hour and a half overnight. might as well not have even spread the fertilizer. I'm sure it's all gone now. thank goodness for my dad, who was up late and pulled all the pumps and hoses out of the creek. they would have all been gone if he hadn't. thankfully, we've got enough grassy areas, perennial plantings with grass aisles and small fields that erosion isn't a huge problem with heavy rainfall. it only becomes an issue if the creek goes over the bank, which it hasn't yet. another storm is approaching now though :/
this was at 5:30am this morning. normally the water is 15 feet below the bridge. it has gone down since then
left a message for insurance stuff, we'll see. no petting strange dogs right now.
I have ideas for making food but no energy to do it on my day off. current plans: potato and chickpea curry hand pies with rice and pork in curry sauce (I bought a jar even). hazelnut cookies. might take a nap instead. maybe I should try and do some of this a little at a time sitting down. I miss baking so much. I think part of this is that I really enjoy farm work and getting stuff done around the farm. It's extremely satisfying and I'm full of energy. And yet, I am so tired on my days off. I don't really understand it much. I think I also am pretty sore from the tractor, they didn't build things for comfort in the 40s. the backrest broke off yesterday too, so there was only a metal bar to rest against.
nap it is
I wasn't so tired until yesterday, when I spent all afternoon and evening until 8:30pm spreading fertilizer with the cultivating tractor. Wanted to get it all spread before it rained so it would dissolve into the soil. ate lunch at 2pm while on the tractor. It's an international 140, extremely cool gas tractor. We got the fertilizer spreader working and I spread 450 lbs of fertilizer over 6.5 acres banded on the pumpkin rows. It took me six hours due to drive time.
and then it rained 1.6 inches in an hour and a half overnight. might as well not have even spread the fertilizer. I'm sure it's all gone now. thank goodness for my dad, who was up late and pulled all the pumps and hoses out of the creek. they would have all been gone if he hadn't. thankfully, we've got enough grassy areas, perennial plantings with grass aisles and small fields that erosion isn't a huge problem with heavy rainfall. it only becomes an issue if the creek goes over the bank, which it hasn't yet. another storm is approaching now though :/
this was at 5:30am this morning. normally the water is 15 feet below the bridge. it has gone down since then
left a message for insurance stuff, we'll see. no petting strange dogs right now.
I have ideas for making food but no energy to do it on my day off. current plans: potato and chickpea curry hand pies with rice and pork in curry sauce (I bought a jar even). hazelnut cookies. might take a nap instead. maybe I should try and do some of this a little at a time sitting down. I miss baking so much. I think part of this is that I really enjoy farm work and getting stuff done around the farm. It's extremely satisfying and I'm full of energy. And yet, I am so tired on my days off. I don't really understand it much. I think I also am pretty sore from the tractor, they didn't build things for comfort in the 40s. the backrest broke off yesterday too, so there was only a metal bar to rest against.
nap it is
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Date: 2025-07-15 01:11 am (UTC)You constantly amaze me by how productive you are on the farm. It’s honest work and I wish you all the satisfaction of it. (And I’m a little jealous, too, that you have so much energy!)
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Date: 2025-07-15 11:05 am (UTC)I do have a lot of energy, I was on a tractor all day once last week and was all wiggly and energetic that evening while I was supposed to be on register, so I weeded the field next to the register. But I've always been like this. My whole family is like this, it's genetic I think. There's also a strategy to it as well. Usually we do hand or physical work in the mornings, tractor work in the afternoons and evenings. I take a decent lunch most of the time. There's also a spring ramp-up in hours and temperature to get used to the work too. Training.