Lovely Spring Day

There is nothing like a lovely spring day to get farmers out of hibernation. Just like ground squirrels you see them popping out to check the weather. After the fall work is all done and enough snow falls to make working outside impossible farmers retreat to "the shop". The shop (think ultimate man cave) is where equipment is checked over, repaired and just in general tinkered with. I think tinkered is a good word for farmers. A true farmer can "tinker" with about anything, using up all that winter time and therefore at least looking busy.
So along comes the second true warm day of spring. No matter that they are talking about high winds in the afternoon and possible snow tomorrow, it is warm today. Tractors start popping up in fields and farm yards hooking up to equipment.
No different here. I was feeding our cows this morning and heard the weather report about the high wind gusts for later. This usually wouldn't be a problem but I had two pieces of irrigation wheelline that had come unhooked from the rest. The wind would blow these pieces across the field, in general making a mess and possibly breaking more pipe. So, because Jon was busy, I thought I could just take out a spare pipe we keep on hand and replace the broken one. Good idea and things were going fine but I soon realized that the loose pipe were no longer lined up with the others and I would have to take them apart, move them a few feet down the field and put them back together. This I can do, however, it is easier with 2 people. Lucky for me Jon and our friend Dennis decided to come to the farm to fill the grain drill. They came out and helped do the pipe. Replaced the 2 broken sections, much much easier with more people.
So with the pipe hooked back up it is then time to get tractors out of the shed and start hooking them up. Check air in all the tires stuff like that. Got the grain drill hooked up finally and started filling it with wheat seed. This is when we all discovered that perhaps we were a bit, just a bit mind you, out of shape lol. Because we haven't grown grain for a couple of years, just grew hay, we had to buy the wheat seed in sacks instead of using the auger on the truck to fill the drill. So we get an assembly line going, Jon gets up on the drill to pour the seed in, I hand the seed off the trailer to Dennis and he opens the sacks and hands them to Jon. Sounds easy but after about the 10th 80 pound sack you realize that you have about 25 more to go yikes 36 sacks of grain I'm out of shape!!!!
Picture is Tony in our newest tractor last fall. He thinks it is great because it has a "buddy" seat net to the drivers seat.