A day in the life of farmer Kelly
Posted by Kelly on May 11, 2007
I really wish I could post some photos. I have some really great ones from the mink barn…Sara holding a baby to name one…too cute. Oh well! If anyone has the HP photo program and you know how to resize the photos when sending to your blog, please let me know.
You know how some days you think back and wonder what you accomplished. Well, today I feel like I actually did something and I’m not bragging but man, I really got alot done:
-got the boys off to school
-did 2 loads of laundry, cleaned the kitchen, made beds, you know, the usual
-cleaned out part of the barn and made a “huge”pile for spring clean up
-cleaned up the horse feed room in the barn
-cleaned out the chick room and got it ready (new shavings, food and water) for the 100 chicks that arrived this afternoon.
-raked out my shade garden and planted a new hosta in place of the creeping vine I replanted near the chicken coop and then had to replant a little maple tree from the chicken coop to out by the road
-speaking of chicken coop, fed chickens and collected the eggs
-planted two holly bushes in the front garden and moved some perennial plants there from the side garden
-Sara and I started a vegetable garden out back
-Sara and I also mowed part of the lawn ( but I don’t really consider this work because it is a ride on mower and is really quite fun)
-did the mink rounds 3 times (checking for and replacing any babies that fall out of the nest)(I will also do this once more tonight)
-and in between those things I painted 3 coats on my side door…”vanilla persimmon” or what it really looks like, orange.
Plus all the other million “little” things that we, mothers and wives, do everyday.
I think I’ll sleep good tonight. Yahoo!
Shannon said
Love days like that. Today did seem to have a couple of extra hours and I was able to get a few more things done than usual. But that probably has a good deal to do with Marty having 2 kids with him all day long so it was a little quieter than usual.
So glad you had a productive day. Here I’m worrying about 24 chicks and you ordered 100!
Sharon Benson said
Hi Kelly: Sounds like you had a great day yesterday Happy Mothers Day. I hardly ever read the blogs anymore so I was quite impressed with what you had done. Isn’t the Lord wonerful how He has brought you so far. Looking back at you journey.. all that can be said is.. All praise and honor is His. See you at church.
jpslauen said
Hi Kelly, That’s ALOT of work!
I just firgured out today that you can resize the photos once you’ve put them on your blog. It’ll be real big at first, then you click on the picture, then the little tree icon that lets you edit the image and then from there you can resize it. It took me forever to figure that out
Hope that helps! Email me if I wasn’t clear and I’ll try and explaing it better.
Christine said
You make me tired just reading all that you did – you go girl!!! When you are finished at your house – you can come to mine – there are rooms that need to be painted and LOTS of yard work to be done!!
It is just so wonderful that you are well enought to do all those things.
See you on Tuesday
Christine