When warmer weather finally arrives, the urge to clean and spruce things up comes on pretty strong. Well, here on the farm, that desire to clean things up takes place both inside and out. There's sheds that have accumulated all kinds of tools, broken parts, spare this and spare that. Things just seem to appear from under the snow that you didn't even know were there! My daughter's pony got in on the action last weekend by working on his harness skills. We have a shed down in the woods where we keep spare tires. One by one we hitched up to a tire or two, pulled it down to the shed, unhooked, stacked the tire on the shelf and made our way back up to the tire pile by the barn. What a good refresher course for him and what a good calorie burner for me! Although I wasn't pulling the tire, just walking behind him in the mud and snow, handling the reins was enough to get the heart rate going!
Just being able to swing the barn doors wide open is a blessing. More light comes into the barn. The cows get a chance to see their pasture greening up. Even the barn kitties come out and play in the yard in front of the barn. It was so neat to see them jumping up in the air, twisting and turning, then coming back down to tackle each other, roll around and go back up again!
Farmer Rick put up a new set of heavy duty shelves in the pole barn to accommodate more storage for seed, parts, and other items he needs to have on hand. These shelves are rather large, but able to handle the load of machinery replacement parts that need to be handy for use when things break down.
Won't be long and the ground will firm up enough for me to start tackling the manure pile out behind the barn. That's my version of spring cleaning. It's amazing how much accumulates over the winter! But having a spreader and skid steer handy for the job sure cuts down on the work. We also are provided with lots of good fertilizer that will make that corn grow.
So much to do - but I am glad that spring has finally sprung!
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