Winter/Feeding Edition
It’s fun to go through a day in the life of other people and people often ask what we do all day so here it is!
I detest waking up to an alarm and am blessed to not have to. My Forever tends to be my alarm. My grandma had this uncanny ability to wake up at a specific time without an alarm. Matt has that same ability. I don’t. My Forever wakes up approximately the same time every day. If I don’t work out in the morning, I don’t work out. My schedule changes throughout the different seasons on the farm, but right now it works out great to work out before going outside. My workouts are usually 30 minutes or less. I don’t workout to look a certain way, I workout to feel a certain way.
We’re calving cows and feeding cattle right now. After dressing for the weather outside, I water and feed the chickens and Poncho. Then head to the pickup to take to headquarters to get the tractor and hay buster. Sometimes I need to check the cows before feeding, but most of the time Henry or Matt does that.
I load up the hay that I need and head to the cows. We use a haybuster that grinds the cattle up. Matt brings the pickup and gives them extra protein in the form of distillers. It takes me roughly 2-3 hours of feeding with the tractor. Depending on how the morning goes and how much Matt gets done, I feed silage once getting back to headquarters. We give silage to the cows that have had calves in the last few months. We also check the babies every day. Then we refill the silage truck to get it ready for the next day. If there are babies to haul out, we do that.
Then it’s lunch time! Lately, I’ve been pretty good about packing a lunch for My Forever and I so we don’t have to come home for lunch. I think it’s special to be able to eat lunch with my spouse almost everyday. I know so many don’t have that ability and I’m extremely grateful for it.
The afternoons are all different. The cows are checked every 2-3 hours (or more) by one of the three of us. The cows always take priority.
Matt always has a list in his head of things that need done. Always. And it’s always 3,004 miles long and never ending. The afternoon is when those things get accomplished. Sometimes it’s fixing things in the shop, sometimes hauling rocks, sometimes improving the pastures or crop fields, sometimes he gives me the afternoon off to work at home. It’s always different.
The evenings are one of my favorite times of the day. We get home, shower – seperately or together – cook dinner, discuss our day and generally unwind from our day. This is when Matt sits in a chair on his phone with a terrible show on TV that he’s not watching. However, if I ever try to change the channel he insists that he’s watching it. Even when his eyes are closed and he’s snoring – he’s still watching it! Insert eye roll here.
Then bed time, my favorite time of day! (For more than one reason – insert wink here). My favorite part of every single day is going to sleep beside My Forever. There’s something about ending a day, good or bad, beside the one that loves you for better or worse. It’s my favorite.
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~Matt & Kelsey